In compensation for considerable disgust, despondency, and boredom--such as living in solitude without friends, books, duties, or ...passions necessarily entails--we are given those quarter-hours of deepest communion with ourselves and nature. Those who completely barricade themselves from boredom, barricade themselves from themselves as well: they will never get to drink the most refreshingly potent draught from the their own innermost fountain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was something refreshingly and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man's canoe, reminding me of Charlevo...ix and Canadian Voyageurs. The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat, a fur-trader's boat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »