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Stitch in Time

Stitch in Time

Gould, John
Hanks, Consuelo E.

Paperback

Biographies GeneralLetters & EssaysGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0393336484
ISBN13: 9780393336481
Publisher: W W Norton & Co
Published: Apr 1 1985
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In these observations on the inhabitants of his Maine seacoast village, Mr. Gould addresses important matters. For example, there is the question of why there are two churches in a town of 800 souls, some of whom were atheists. It seems that the split between the two congregations was a matter of both free will and logic. The devotional division was caused by the question of whether Balaam's ass spoke or whether Balaam just said his ass spoke. There is more, wonderfully much more, in this joyful journey into the mind and memory of John Gould: how giving a child a calf to raise provides top-notch instruction in agronomy, economics, subsistence, and merchandising, as well as milk in the shoes; how lobstermen can communicate without uttering a word; or his comment on women's yearning for equality: If lovely woman stoops for the folly of equalizing herself with man, God's great mistake, she deserves what she gets.

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