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The Wilder Memorial Library

Description: This was the day Wilder got on his plastic tricycle, rode it around the block, turned right onto a dead end street and pedaled noisily to the dead end... Wilder, meanwhile, ignoring their cries or not hearing them in the serial whoosh of dashing hatchbacks and vans, began to pedal across the highway, mystically charged... The drivers could not quite comprehend. In their knotted posture, belted in, they knew this picture did not belong to the hurtling consciousness of the highway, the broad-ribboned modernist stream. In speed there was sense. In signs, in patterns, in split-second lives. What did it mean, this little rotary blur? Some force in the world had gone awry. They veered, braked, sounded their horns down the long afternoon, an animal lament... Stunned, he made the decision to cry.

Members: strabismos, e_maki, thediehns, im.brian.of.nazareth, burdines, cbhillstrom, ZumskiFinke, jdmichler

Member library: 3,569 books

Most commonly shared books (weighted): A New History of Philosophy, Volume I: From Thales to… by Wallace I. Matson (3), Religion in the Japanese Experience: Sources and… by H. Byron Earhart (3), Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard (6), For the Time Being by Annie Dillard (6), Great Speeches by Native Americans by Chief Joseph (3), Awakening : an introduction to the history of Eastern… by Patrick S. Bresnan (2), Classics of Philosophy: Volume II: Modern and Contemporary… by Louis P. Pojman (2), Travelers' Tales Cuba: True Stories (2), Praise, Anxiety, & Other Symptoms of Grace by Joey Earl Horstman (2), Hooray for Minnesota Winters!: For Minnesotans (and Those… by Bret Nicholaus (2)

Created: Feb 11, 2007 by jdmichler; Language: English