{"id":274,"date":"2009-08-08T16:53:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T21:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2009-08-10T21:31:54","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T02:31:54","slug":"on-boat-discussions-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"ON BOAT DISCUSSIONS-WITH"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer in Tenants Harbor:<\/strong> Four boaters walk by Roseledge Books. Three come in to browse; the fourth sits in the yard, settles the dog, and thinks about things. With the summer\u2019s fog, they\u2019ve taken to becalmed-boat activities, e.g. acting out parts in a play (Roseledge Books always has at least Shakespeare\u2019s The Tempest<\/strong>), making a pot of something (Roseledge Books has Marjorie Standish\u2019s Soups, Stews, and Chowders<\/strong>; the Tenants Harbor General Store has groceries, and the Produce Lady offers a 3 mile walk to stretch your legs and a farmer\u2019s market to satisfy even the fussy). But now the mind needs more. Has Roseledge Books got an idea for you!<\/p>\n

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Fig. #63. Roseledge Books to the left. Tenants Harbor General Store to the right. Sea Street decision alert.<\/p><\/div>\n

Evolution is ever within, or maybe without, but ever it is. Clearly, it\u2019s time for a late afternoon discussion-with (that is, discussion with a glass of something). What to do? How about browsing the ever-changing shelves of Roseledge Books to find the perfect reads. For evolutionary starters, Charles Darwin\u2019s Voyages of the Beagle<\/strong> is right there with the sailing tie-in. Then Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (a favorite thinker) advances the cause in Amir Aczel\u2019s The Jesuit and the Skull,<\/strong> and the book provides a snotty Vatican report as well, which is always helpful, I think. Maybe for the alternate viewpoint in the crowd, Roseledge Books has John Darnton\u2019s The Darwin Conspiracy<\/strong>, a murder mystery which, whatever else the critics had to say about it, is evolutionarily accurate. RB is currently out of Tim Severin\u2019s The Spice Islands Voyage<\/strong>, a revisiting of Alfred Russell Wallace\u2019s trip which, some argue, provoked Darwin to finally publish, but when it is more available, RB will have it. I love Tim Severin\u2019s books.<\/p>\n

So the readers browse, then read, the thinker thinks with the dog, the day recedes, ideas sprout, exchanges blossom, the boat idles, friendships endure, and the world is a better place. I just don\u2019t think it ever gets better than that.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, the slow summer meanders into August. Blue asters are in the ditches. Farley Mowat\u2019s Bay of Spirits<\/strong> has arrived, and I can hardly wait to read this complement to (wife) Clare Mowat\u2019s The Outport People<\/strong> which Roseledge Books is out of right now, but is one of my favorite books.<\/p>\n

A day later:<\/strong> Oops; skip the on boat discussion-with about evolution. A RB Regular just bought the Teilhard de Chardin biography. The day is glorious. Time for a webcam look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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