“For about a month now we have had solid cold—firm, business-like cold that stalked in and took charge of the countryside as a brisk housewife might take charge of someone else’s kitchen in an emergency.”
E. B. White
more infosource: “Cold Weather,” in One Man’s Meat (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1944), 346.
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category: cold, country, winter
medium: essay
notes: White wrote this essay in January 1943.
“It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, though there were no reindeers. But there were cats.”
Dylan Thomas
more infosource: “A Child’s Christmas in Wales,” in The Collected Stories (New York: New Directions, 1986), 296.
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category: cat, Christmas, snow, winter
medium: Fiction
via: Sarah Kershaw“Just to live in New England in winter is a full-time job; you don’t have to ‘do’ anything. The idle pursuit of making-a-living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.”
E. B. White
more infosource: “A Report in January,” in Essays of E. B. White (New York: Harper & Row, 1977), 46.
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category: New England, winter
medium: Essay
“My garden is all covered up by snow; picked gilliflower Tuesday, now gilliflowers are asleep. The hills take off their purple frocks, and dress in long white nightgowns.”
Emily Dickinson
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