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remmers
response 89 of 278: Mark Unseen   Apr 29 12:49 UTC 1999

Swift was more than a bit earlier than Stevenson.

Hm, no clue at this point. I could try guessing a few authors who wrote
about the sea but will wait until I have more to go on.
anderyn
response 90 of 278: Mark Unseen   Apr 29 13:31 UTC 1999

Not Swift, no. 
md
response 91 of 278: Mark Unseen   Apr 29 14:20 UTC 1999

Jack London?
mcnally
response 92 of 278: Mark Unseen   Apr 29 16:10 UTC 1999

  Now there's a likely contender..
davel
response 93 of 278: Mark Unseen   Apr 29 17:35 UTC 1999

Kipling?
gjharb
response 94 of 278: Mark Unseen   Apr 29 18:07 UTC 1999

Melville?
anderyn
response 95 of 278: Mark Unseen   Apr 29 20:43 UTC 1999

Jack London is it. The story is called "The Heathen" and it's not
one of his typical ones, but I have always liked it.
MD, your turn!
md
response 96 of 278: Mark Unseen   Apr 30 01:32 UTC 1999

Okay, here's my mystery quote:

In the inside there is sleeping, in the outside 
there is reddening, in the morning there is 
meaning, in the evening there is feeling. In 
the evening there is feeling. In feeling 
anything is resting, in feeling anything is 
mounting, in feeling there is resignation, in 
feeling there is recognition, in feeling there 
is recurrence and entirely mistaken there is 
pinching. All the standards have steamers and 
all the curtains have bed linen and all the 
yellow has discrimination and all the circle 
has circling. This makes sand. 
omni
response 97 of 278: Mark Unseen   Apr 30 06:16 UTC 1999

  George Orwell
md
response 98 of 278: Mark Unseen   Apr 30 10:33 UTC 1999

Not Orwell.
remmers
response 99 of 278: Mark Unseen   Apr 30 11:18 UTC 1999

Dr Seuss.



Oops, almost forgot:  :)
md
response 100 of 278: Mark Unseen   Apr 30 12:06 UTC 1999

Not Dr Seuss.
mary
response 101 of 278: Mark Unseen   Apr 30 12:15 UTC 1999

(Cool quote.)
jazz
response 102 of 278: Mark Unseen   Apr 30 12:27 UTC 1999

        Tom Waits?
md
response 103 of 278: Mark Unseen   Apr 30 12:53 UTC 1999

Not Tom Waits.  Here's another quote, same
author, same work:

There is coagulation in cold and there 
is none in prudence. Something is preserved 
and the evening is long and the colder spring 
has sudden shadows in a sun. All the stain is 
tender and lilacs really lilacs are disturbed. 
Why is the perfect reestablishment practiced 
and prized, why is it composed. The result the 
pure result is juice and size and baking and 
exhibition and nonchalance and sacrifice and 
volume and a section in division and the 
surrounding recognition and horticulture and 
no murmur. This is a result. There is no 
superposition and circumstance, there is 
hardness and a reason and the rest and 
remainder. There is no delight and no 
mathematics.
aruba
response 104 of 278: Mark Unseen   Apr 30 13:55 UTC 1999

William Carlos Williams?
happyboy
response 105 of 278: Mark Unseen   Apr 30 15:52 UTC 1999

RED SOVINE!!!
md
response 106 of 278: Mark Unseen   Apr 30 17:03 UTC 1999

Neither William Carlos Williams nor Red Sovine.
md
response 107 of 278: Mark Unseen   Apr 30 17:12 UTC 1999

One more excerpt:

A light in the moon the only light is on Sunday. 
What was the sensible decision. The sensible 
decision was that notwithstanding many 
declarations and more music, not even 
notwithstanding the choice and a torch and a 
collection, notwithstanding the celebrating hat 
and a vacation and even more noise than cutting, 
notwithstanding Europe and Asia and being 
overbearing, not even notwithstanding an 
elephant and a strict occasion, not even 
withstanding more cultivation and some seasoning, 
not even with drowning and with the ocean being 
encircling, not even with more likeness and any 
cloud, not even with terrific sacrifice of 
pedestrianism and a special resolution, not even 
more likely to be pleasing. The care with which 
the rain is wrong and the green is wrong and the 
white is wrong, the care with which there is a 
chair and plenty of breathing. The care with 
which there is incredible justice and likeness, 
all this makes a magnificent asparagus, and 
also a fountain. 
bookworm
response 108 of 278: Mark Unseen   Apr 30 17:21 UTC 1999

Wow!  Whoever he is, this guy is prolific.
md
response 109 of 278: Mark Unseen   Apr 30 17:26 UTC 1999

Hint: dead white Cliffie.
remmers
response 110 of 278: Mark Unseen   Apr 30 18:26 UTC 1999

Re resp:108 - Yep, real prolific. Wrote at least three paragraphs.  :)
aruba
response 111 of 278: Mark Unseen   Apr 30 21:07 UTC 1999

What's a Cliffie?
md
response 112 of 278: Mark Unseen   May 1 03:05 UTC 1999

Radcliffe student or alum.
md
response 113 of 278: Mark Unseen   May 1 03:11 UTC 1999

Hint: The work quoted was published in 1914.
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