Posted by Prue Eckett on June 02, 2004 at 04:35:29 from 210.86.105.83 user PrueEckett.
In Reply to: Narrative in the First Person (Again) posted by Cairn a.k.a. Sayoko on June 02, 2004 at 02:29:54:
I too have always loved this passage - although I think AR suddenly realised he had to account for the existance of this building and edited in this piece a little clumsily. I like the 'over a hundred years ago' feeling, as though the man and his place had been part of the environment, and so remained there for the benefit of snowbound travellers.
I have a feeling that one edition had changed part of it to; 'For nearly a hundred years he had been dust...'or am I fantasising?