12/02/2026 15:32

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One of the kids in the back seat spoke up. My uncle was in the lumber business-Uncle Alfred, the Eastman Lumber Company; he married my mother's sister, my aunt, Martha Wheelwright. What a silence that was!-interrupted only by the drops of water from the rope falling into the quarry. Brocklebank's frenzy to educate herself; I said I'd lend her my copy ofThe Life of the Tidepool.

But before we finished loading the baseball cards in the car, Dan Needham asked me, What are you giving Mm? What? I said. who chopped up Chopin and Mozart and Debussy into two- and three-minute exaggerated flourishes on a piano he played with diamond-studded hands. INTERESTING, HUH? IF IT'S TRUE, he added. The Squamscott was widened; the channel was dredged.