By Henry James
First released in "Harper's per 30 days journal" in 1906, Henry James describes turn-of-the-century long island in vibrant element. even supposing written in 1904-1905, while James back to the united states after dwelling in another country for greater than two decades, the essay is as pertinent at the present time because it was once a hundred years in the past. The textual content seems because it used to be initially released and is greater with interval illustrations and images. fantastically sure and with a unbelievable view of the Flatiron development at the hide, this e-book is a literary treasure.
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If it didn’t work the way we wanted, we shaped it to our needs. Wonder? What was there to wonder at? It occurs to me, though, that our inability to read the Book of Nature— and yes, I intend that uppercase N in all its Romantic glory—doesn’t nec- MISCELLANY 47 Slouka Final2 Rev2 5/25/09 12:35 PM Page 48 essarily mean there is no book to be read, only that we can’t read it; that the stories we’ve told and the tools we’ve developed to disarticulate it, and the indifference we’ve cultivated to make it go away, won’t do.
Moreover, the city’s demographics have become bizarrely skewed, as college graduates and middle-aged people have fled—leaving large ranks of the elderly, who scrape by on union health-care benefits and pensions. Overall, Pittsburgh is one of the only major cities in the country to have lost population for the past three decades. Since the collapse of the steel industry, the USW has had to diversify, with more than 80 percent of its membership now working in non-steel industries, including automobile parts, aluminum, mining, plastics, and rubber, as well as forestry and even undertaking.
It felt warm, I realized, because it had been in the sun. And although I didn’t want to, I slid my fingers into the ugly split in the skin and under the cracked plastron and felt them there: small, smooth, oval. I slipped them one by one out of that wreckage—startlingly white, apparently undamaged—and brought them back to the cabin, where I placed them in an old Thompson Cigar box between two layers of sphagnum moss left over from some gardening venture. They meant a good deal to me, those five orphans, and over the next few weeks I checked the box often, already imagining the Washington-quarter-size hatchlings—perfect miniatures—scurrying over the moss, the aquarium we would set up for them on the bench, the day in September when, halfgrown, they would swim off our palms into the darkness of the lake.