Re: TARBOARD, strangers yet friends


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Posted by Owen Roberts on November 17, 2004 at 14:52:31 from 194.201.78.129 user OwenRoberts.

In Reply to: TARBOARD, strangers yet friends posted by Ed Kiser on November 17, 2004 at 01:38:48:

You may think that by being in the southern USA that you are more remote from Ransome than those who can access the lakes and other places in the UK more easily.
These places have changed considerably in atmosphere since the time AR wrote about them 70 odd years ago. Indeed it has been said that he was writing about the district that existed some 30 years before that.
So we all need a good imagination to try and guess what it was like all those years ago.
Probably the only time that I have found it was easy to visualise what it was like in those days was to stand on the pier at Ambleside (the pier near the North Pole)about 11 o'clock at night. The total darkness enabled me to feel what it was like for the crew of the Swallow returning after the abortive cutting out expedition in S&A.
It was impossible to see anything. One can sympathise very easily with Mrs Walker's thoughts about night sailing.
Perhaps my imagination was stirred by not being able to see anything.



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