Word: boatman
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...columns - is an abscess of smug, unexamined left-wing assumption, which is just as unhealthy as smug, unexamined right-wing assumption. Both are a form of intellectual corruption - or maybe just narcolepsy. The Globe neither challenges itself nor surprises its readers. Its sclerotic liberalism trudges along, like the Volga boatman, dreaming its own dreams...
...There are two islands. Each island has one person living on it. Each person has a box, a key and a lock. Each key will only unlock its own lock. One of the people also has a pot of gold. A boatman paddles back and forth between the two islands. He will steal anything given to him unless it is in a locked box. How could the person with the gold send it to the other person without leaving his island...
...person with the gold puts the pot into his box. He locks it, but keeps his key. He sends it over with the boatman. The other one then puts his lock on the box and keeps his key. Then he sends it back to the first person. Then the first person removes his lock and sends it back to his friend. The second person unlocks the box, opens it and revels in his newfound wealth...
There was no shooting this night. The dance ended promptly at midnight. The crowd, inspired by Deputy Sheriff Klingemann's quiet presence, downed the last of some 700 cans of beer sold during the evening and melted away peaceably. Shouting erupted upstream when the returning Mexicans found that their boatman had tied up the rowboat on the far side of the river and gone to bed. The problem was resolved when a young man rolled up his trousers and waded across to bring the boat back to the U.S. side. By 1:30 a.m. there were no human sounds...
...Mark," the woman Reva, having lost both her parents at once, marries a dull, insensitive man whom she ends up despising. She tries to hold on to shattered family and love by continuing an incestuous relationship with her brother Clinton, dreaming of him coming to her "not in his boatman's clothes, but as a naked Indian hiding in the pawpaw tunnels. "The writing is lyrical but is always darkened by tragedy and disappointment. At the end of the story, Reva meditates by the lock house in which she and Clinton made love: "Upstream, a deer's hoof sucked...