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warming sunlight on the damp, heaving
raft, to putter in
a world of good, if you can only be happy here,
puttering about with us
2
here and there,
but that’s puttering
the beginning of things
if I had;
don’t you suppose I’d be doing something instead of
puttering away with just the
3
Fire Extinguisher (Strickland Patent,
over which the doctor had been puttering for years),
sale of
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garden,
puttering about the
cooking, cleaning, and packing, delightful afternoon of
(loved puttering)
varied activities
(of yard and garden, snipping marguerites, watering the flowers),
puttering among
blue, sort of,
to see him puttering around
5
As you can see !
shabby books outside the book-shop
unrelieved blackness, turning the pages
“I was puttering about in the back of the store, putting it in order, really”
6
the old days when he used to be rich and important, very happy,
puttering about with Audrey
remembering
7
life, a great deal about,
indifferent acceptance of (including J’s incessant puttering)
a damp rag,
she puttered about with
8
twilight, perverse fantasy for,
puttering about with straining eyes and inaccurate fingers
despair, driven to
by Lizzie’s puttering about
But she was so dreary
a careful message
clumsily puttering about in his desire
9
world, any other thing in,
preference for puttering about this old place, to
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farm,
putterin’ about, and feelin’ that you were a free man
day, delightful,
his busy puttering
11
kitchen,
(hearing rain pattering on the porch roof, wood crackling in the stove)
puttering about
changing things, puttering around —
how would you like it?
12
old place (ramshackle),
to putter and garden and read books
This is me.
13
stove,
puttering ineffectually about, pulling the wrong dampers,
extinguishing what fire there was
dishpan,
puttering away at.
She laughed.
—
sources, all Kathleen Norris (1880-1966)
all hathitrust or borrowable at archive.org
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ex Josselyn’s Wife (1918) : 76 and 287
2
ex The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne (1919) : 119 and 291
3
ex Sisters (1919) : 11
4
ex Certain People of Importance (1922) : 11, 243, 410 and 468
UC copy opens to show full family tree (minus that most important person, “the derelict young coloured woman named Carra”) : link
5
ex Lucretia Lombard (1922) : 107
6
ex Rose of the World (1924) : 163
7
ex The Callahans and the Murphys (1924) : 32 and 42
8
ex Little Ships (1925) : 293, 381 and 412
9
ex The Black Flemings (1926; 1929 printing) : 274
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ex “Sinners,” in Baker’s Dozen (1938; Paperback Library, 1971) : 290 and 296
also appeared in These I like best : the favorite novels and stories of Kathleen Norris, chosen by herself (1941) : link
originally published (as “The Sinners”) in Hearst’s International-Cosmopolitan (July 1929) *
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ex Belle-Mère (1931) : 190 and 204 (borrowable at archive.org)
12
ex Lost Sunrise (1939) : 249 (borrowable at archive.org)
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ex The Venables (1941) : 258 and 396 (borrowable at archive.org)
—
haven’t done this before — direct from puutterings to asfaltics — mea culpa.
will provide (some) more, on Kathleen Norris and for each (some?) of these, at the external archive page (in due course).
Bathroom Master Bath Los Angeles
An illustration of a sizable classic master bathroom with marble countertops, shaker cabinets, an undermount tub, a wall-mount toilet, blue walls, and white and blue mosaic tile flooring.
Enzo Carra ci ha lasciati. Noi gli dobbiamo molto per la dignità con cui fu costretto a subire umiliazione e disprezzo quando si ritrovò a divenire l’emblema di un prezzo pagato al populismo giustizialista che non ha portato né giustizia né una diversa qualità della gestione della cosa pubblica.
Su Politica Insieme, che egli seguiva quotidianamente, scrivemmo nel maggio 2021 (CLICCA QUI) che…
1
warming sunlight on the damp, heaving
raft, to putter in
a world of good, if you can only be happy here,
puttering about with us
2
here and there,
but that’s puttering
the beginning of things
if I had;
don’t you suppose I’d be doing something instead of
puttering away with just the
3
Fire Extinguisher (Strickland Patent,
over which the doctor had been puttering for years),
sale of
4
garden,
puttering about the
cooking, cleaning, and packing, delightful afternoon of
(loved puttering)
varied activities
(of yard and garden, snipping marguerites, watering the flowers),
puttering among
blue, sort of,
to see him puttering around
5
As you can see !
shabby books outside the book-shop
unrelieved blackness, turning the pages
“I was puttering about in the back of the store, putting it in order, really”
6
the old days when he used to be rich and important, very happy,
puttering about with Audrey
remembering
7
life, a great deal about,
indifferent acceptance of (including J’s incessant puttering)
a damp rag,
she puttered about with
8
twilight, perverse fantasy for,
puttering about with straining eyes and inaccurate fingers
despair, driven to
by Lizzie’s puttering about
But she was so dreary
a careful message
clumsily puttering about in his desire
9
world, any other thing in,
preference for puttering about this old place, to
10
farm,
putterin’ about, and feelin’ that you were a free man
day, delightful,
his busy puttering
11
kitchen,
(hearing rain pattering on the porch roof, wood crackling in the stove)
puttering about
changing things, puttering around —
how would you like it?
12
old place (ramshackle),
to putter and garden and read books
This is me.
13
stove,
puttering ineffectually about, pulling the wrong dampers,
extinguishing what fire there was
dishpan,
puttering away at.
She laughed.
—
sources, all Kathleen Norris (1880-1966)
all hathitrust or borrowable at archive.org
1
ex Josselyn’s Wife (1918) : 76 and 287
2
ex The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne (1919) : 119 and 291
3
ex Sisters (1919) : 11
4
ex Certain People of Importance (1922) : 11, 243, 410 and 468
UC copy opens to show full family tree (minus that most important person, “the derelict young coloured woman named Carra”) : link
5
ex Lucretia Lombard (1922) : 107
6
ex Rose of the World (1924) : 163
7
ex The Callahans and the Murphys (1924) : 32 and 42
8
ex Little Ships (1925) : 293, 381 and 412
9
ex The Black Flemings (1926; 1929 printing) : 274
10
ex “Sinners,” in Baker’s Dozen (1938; Paperback Library, 1971) : 290 and 296
also appeared in These I like best : the favorite novels and stories of Kathleen Norris, chosen by herself (1941) : link
originally published (as “The Sinners”) in Hearst’s International-Cosmopolitan (July 1929) *
11
ex Belle-Mère (1931) : 190 and 204 (borrowable at archive.org)
12
ex Lost Sunrise (1939) : 249 (borrowable at archive.org)
13
ex The Venables (1941) : 258 and 396 (borrowable at archive.org)
—
will provide (some) more, on Kathleen Norris and for each (some?) of these, at the external archive page (in due course).