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...Hominid-Human development 219 To put this into context: say you go to the beach and come back with a sunburn. This merely means that you took t... ... took the sand for granted and you didn't notice the small oil deposits on the beach. If you come back with reddened eyes; this merely means that yo... ...ay think the most romantic thing in the world is to walk along a sand-covered beach. Why the Australian aborigines coming out of Africa walked 20,0... ... million years from now, digging up a speck of dust from the Hearst Castle in California; and by analyzing this speck of dust…trying to understand w... ...ng this speck of dust…trying to understand what kind of Culture humans had in California back then… Only there would be no way for you to know that... ...me from the Hearst castle, or that there were millions of expensive houses in California, and that all the people spent a good half of their lives wo... ...ll you have to know. Dylan first sang his fucking mocking death song at the Newport Jazz festival: it didn’t sell up north, so they tried it down ...

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...se you were interested in; every one was talking about it two years ago at Newport. And once I saw you sitting together on the verandah at a dance—and... ... ‘em out of it. When I built this house you’d have thought I was moving to California! Nobody ever HAD built above Fortieth Street—no, says I, nor abo... ...fs, dwarf armchairs, and velvet tables covered with trifles in silver. The Newport Archery Club always held its August meeting 143 Edith Wharton at t... ...the old way when his own reactions to it had so completely changed. It was Newport that had first brought home to him the extent of the change. In New... ...e carpet, and think- ing of Ellen Olenska driving home across the gleaming beaches behind Beaufort’s trotters. XXII. “A PA RT Y FOR THE BLENKERS—the B... ...lls, he had confessed to having lain all the afternoon under a rock on the beach be- low the house. “Newland never seems to look ahead,” Mrs. Welland ... ...ing the stable-lad at the corner of Mill Street Archer turned down the Old Beach Road and drove across Eastman’s Beach. He had the feeling of unexplai...

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... THE ONLY SIGN of commercial activity within the harbour, visible from the beach of the Great Isabel, is the square blunt end of the wooden jetty whic... ...mmodation to speak of, whose mission was to creep inshore along the wooded beaches close to mighty ugly rocks, stopping oblig- ingly before every clus... ... him. Some slight incident, a chance word would set him off talking on the beach to the Italian fishermen of Maldonado, in the little shop he kept aft... ...King of Sulaco, and the head of the silver and steel interests far away in California, the conviction was growing that any attempt made by men of educ... ...e a look at Canada, perhaps make a short stay in New York, a longer one in Newport, use his letters of introduction. The pressure of Antonia’s hand wa... ...ir he always carries everywhere. He had been away trad- ing in the Gulf of California, he said, looking straight past us at the wall, as his manner is...

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...eturning. She counted on spending the following August with the Gillows at Newport … and the only alternative was to go to California with the Bockhei... ...August with the Gillows at Newport … and the only alternative was to go to California with the Bockheimers, whom she had hitherto refused even to dine... ... take me to a dinner to- night. I’m going to spend next summer with her at Newport …. If I don’t, I’ve got to go to California with the Bockheimers- s... ... to spend next summer with her at Newport …. If I don’t, I’ve got to go to California with the Bockheimers- so good-bye.” Suddenly in tears, she was o... ...he vision of indo- lent summer days on the lagoon, of flaming hours on the beach of the Lido, and evenings of music and dreams on their broad balcony ... ...mooth things over with the Gillows? Ursula was running amuck when I was in Newport last Summer; it was just when people were beginning to say that you...

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...erican ideals. Sturdiness and democracy and opportunity. Maybe not at Palm Beach. But, thank heaven, we’re free from such social distinc- tions in Gop... ...ht. The Arab village of Djeddah—an intricately chased jewel-box. A town in California which had changed itself from the barren brick fronts and slatte... ...st, flashes of green ice blown clear, chains of drifts ribbed like the sea-beach—the moonlight was overwhelming. It stormed on the snow, it turned the... ... the towns leave them in old age, if they can afford it, and go to live in California or in the cities. The reason, Carol insisted, is not a whiskered... ...pen, revealing discolored suspenders. “Why don’t you put on your nice Palm Beach suit, and take off that hideous vest?” she complained. “Too much trou... ...s a traveling salesman who sang tenor and fancied himself in imitations of Newport clothes and spoke of “the swellest business proposition that ever c... ...he clutched his arm. “You’ve got to be sweet to me, and kind! I’m going to California—mountains, sea. Please don’t argue about it, because I’m going.”...

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... Iowa was admit- ted as a free State, and from that day to this Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Oregon, and Kansas have been brought into the Union;... ...s there. Walking along the river side I counted thirty-two steam- ers, all beached upon the shore, with their bows toward the land—large boats, capabl... ...and given up by the intervention of the Ohio police; and from Covington or Newport any slave with ease can escape into Ohio. But when that divi- 82 N... ...great glory of the town is the “levee,” as it is called, or the long river beach up to which the steamers are brought with their bows to the shore. It... ...ve special orders that a contract should be made with a man named Beard, a Californian, who had followed him from California to St. Louis. This contra... ...hough it were merely an extension of fron- tier. But this has not been so. California and Oregon have been very much farther from Washington than the ...

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... the gate to the great house, was richly paved with white pebbles from the beach, and, in its course, formed a complete circle around the beautiful la... ...ad not a cent of money, and lacked two dollars toward paying our fare from Newport, and our baggage not very costly—was taken by the stage driver, and... ...e engaged in all manner of enterprises common to other men—digging gold in California, captur- ing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle ...

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...APTER VI ? LOSS OF A MAN?SUPERSTITION, 18 -- CHAPTER VII ? JUAN FERNANDEZ?THE PACIFIC, 21 -- CHAPTER VIII ? ??TARRING DOWN???DAILY LIFE???GOING AFT???CALIFORNIA -- ., 25 -- CHAPTER IX ? CALIFORNIA?A SOUTH-EASTER, 28 -- CHAPTER X ? A SOUTH-EASTER?PASSAGE UP THE COAST, 32 -- CHAPTER XI ? PASSAGE UP THE COAST?MONTEREY, 35 -- CHAPTER XII ? LIFE AT MONTEREY, 38 -- CHAPTER XIII ...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 NIA . . . . . . . . 28 CHAPTER IX — CALIFORNIA—A SOUTH EASTER . . . . . . 32 CHAPTER X — A SOUTH EASTER—PASS... ...EISURE—NEWS FROM HOME—’’BURNING THE WATER’’ . . . . . . . 87 CHAPTER XXI — CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS . . . . . . . . . 90 CHAPTER XXII — LIFE ... ...22 GRANDEE—’’SAIL HO!’’—A FANDANGO CHAPTER XXVIII — AN OLD FRIEND—A VICTIM—CALIFORNIA . . . . . . . . . 128 RANGERS—NEWS FROM HOME—LAST LOOKS CHAPT... ...ent ashore told us that the long ground swell broke into a heavy surf on the beach. There was only one vessel in the port—a long, sharp brig of about ... ...e mark by which vessels come to anchor. The town lies a little nearer to the beach—about half a mile from it— and is composed of one story houses buil... ...iged to leave the town and take up their quarters for several days upon the beach. Just before sundown the mate ordered a boat’s crew ashore, an... ...ust this be in a south easter! The rocks were as large as those of Nahant or Newport, but, to my eye, more grand and broken. Beside, there was a grand...

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...nce who, 17 Familiar Studies of Men & Books when he wanted to paint a sea-beach, carried realism from his ends to his means, and plastered real sand ... ... precisely what is done in the drama. The dramatic author has to paint his beaches with real sand: real live men and women move about the stage; we he... ...issent; and Whitman, like a large shaggy dog, just unchained, scouring the beaches of the world and baying at the moon. And when was an echo more curi... ...e most cogent purposes of those great in- land states, and for T exas, and California, and Oregon;” – a statement which is among the happiest achievem... ...nd royal dukes. He spends an evening at Vauxhall with “Killigrew and young Newport – loose com- pany,” says he, “but worth a man’s being in for once, ...

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....................................... .............................. 79 THE CALIFORNIAN’S TALE ........................................................... ...ay toward the rising sun, immea surably remote, astronomically remote, in Newport, Rhode Is land, Holy Land of High Society, ineffable Domain of the... ... de light. “And it will be the very first in America. Aleck, it will make Newport sick.” Then they fell silent, and drifted away upon their dream win... ... send forth its screams from the stubborn oak— let the sea sport upon the beach, and the stars sing together; but learn of these, Elfonzo, thy doom, ... ... send forth its screams from the stubborn oak— let the sea sport upon the beach, and the stars sing together; but learn of these, Elfonzo, thy doom, ... ...iously at their triumph, THROUGH THE TEARS OF THE STORM. * * * THE CALIFORNIAN’S TALE THIRTY FIVE YEARS AGO I was out prospecting on the St... ...relatives and friends, and be to them thenceforth as one dead. Round about California in that day were scattered a host of these living dead men—pride...