Word: sand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saybrook boats sit lazily in a sheltered marina while ducks congregate on a small sand island. The tracks open up onto a large body of water, where a group of three men sit quietly in a rowboat, their fishing poles resting on the sides of the boat. A sign at the entrance to Pawtucket, Conn. announces that it is "A Good Place to Live, Work, or Play." A woman walks into Ted's laundromat. A passing truck hauls steel canoes...
...those incongruous specks on the map that once posted the British Empire, the isolated little island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean was no better known than it ought to be. Consisting of two slender strips of sand skirting a great lagoon-"like a V written by a shaky hand," wrote one visitor-it was overrun by forbidding jungle growth, wild donkeys and giant land crabs that, according to the few hundred migratory workers who settled the island and harvested its coconut palms, would mass like an army to attack and devour the unwary stroller...
...wish I could be a grain of sand on the vernal road...
...tablecloth whipped off a table." But sooner or later, a pilgrim who refuses to believe in progress, she cuts back to the bone. To an age hooked on novelty, variety and pluralism, her message is as clear as William Blake's: "See a world in a grain of sand"-if you dare...
...beauty of desert sunsets and the soporific, swaying movement of the camel. He can make a reader comfortably fixed with a Scotch in his hand share the blessed glee of finding brackish water dotted with camel dung that is worth more than gold or oil in a sea of sand...