I've always liked that Mark Kurlansky like to frequenty quote the fine language of those great writers that preceeded him.
"The towns peter out into flat rusty-brown lava fields, scattered shacks surrounded by wire fencing, stockfish drying on washing-lines and a few white hens."
From Letters from Iceland by W.H. Auden & Louis MacNeice, 1967
more recently quoted by Kurlansy in the book "Cod."
Saturday, August 11, 2007
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