RE: RE: My Co-opted Evenings, a freewrite
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RE: My Co-opted Evenings, a freewrite

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Dust today, and tomorrow it will all be back again.
"Sun and wind make great housekeepers" - Willa Cather, in The Professor's House, in which a guy discovered a cliff dwelling in New Mexico. No dust or spiderwebs; the wind sweeps as the sun sanitizes (no Lysol! No bleach!). Oh, you would love this one, I'm sure - like me, you have thousands of books to find homes for and maybe we both should resort to more library books....? (Greedy! No, must #keepBooks within reach, to revisit any hour, any day!)

On the eve of his move to a new, more desirable residence, Professor Godfrey St. Peter finds himself in the shabby study of his former home. Surrounded by the comforting, familiar sights of his past, he surveys his life and the people he has loved — his wife Lillian, his daughters, and Tom Outland, his most outstanding student and once, his son-in-law to be. Enigmatic and courageous—and a tragic victim of the Great War — Tom has remained a source of inspiration to the professor. But ....
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