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About the title
excerpted from a quote of Don Pedro, a Spanish stereotype and frame-narrative foil in Melville's Moby Dick:
"Hereabouts in this dull, warm, most lazy, and hereditary land, we know but little of your
vigorous North."
See also the inaugural post.
3 comments:
very cool
Is this the portland version of manhattanhenge? Nice shot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattanhenge
Wow-- I always knew my street had some kind of druidic / pagan significance... now I see it confirmed!
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