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30 Days of Books - Day 18
Aug. 21st, 2010 08:57 pm
Day 18 – Favorite beginning scene in a book
Spangle by Gary Jennings. It opens with a group of Union soldiers talking about the Civil War, at the end of the war. They are getting ready to go home, some to see if they still have homes remaining. They are tired, many are heartbroken, it is cold and drizzling rain. They share coffee, tobacco and experiences. They talk of going to 'see the elephant', a euphemism for combat. The next day, two of the soldiers who lived nearby enough one another to share the journey home are resting, and one looks up to literally see an elephant.
I like moments of absurdity and surrealism in books. Weird moments that pop up in daily life. What could be stranger than two American soldiers in the southeast seeing an elephant bathing in the rain under a bridge?
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Spangle by Gary Jennings. It opens with a group of Union soldiers talking about the Civil War, at the end of the war. They are getting ready to go home, some to see if they still have homes remaining. They are tired, many are heartbroken, it is cold and drizzling rain. They share coffee, tobacco and experiences. They talk of going to 'see the elephant', a euphemism for combat. The next day, two of the soldiers who lived nearby enough one another to share the journey home are resting, and one looks up to literally see an elephant.
I like moments of absurdity and surrealism in books. Weird moments that pop up in daily life. What could be stranger than two American soldiers in the southeast seeing an elephant bathing in the rain under a bridge?
( The rest of the questions )
