Belmont Pier

Geared up around 3:45 am and walked to 17th Street to catch the Route 60 Bus...thought was to go to Seal Beach Pier, but Bus took me to 2nd St. and PCH....this is the beginning of Long Beach...and curious to see what Alamitos Marina was like, I hopped off...Seal Beach Pier is about a mile and a half from hereabout, but I caught a Long Beach Bus, 171 I think, and thought to maybe go all the way to Catalina, via Catalina Landing!...for sometime...hopped off at Belmont Pier...too early for Breakfast inside at Jack in the Box, so walked out on the Pier...very different...Long Beach has a skyline, and seems more cityish...Queen Fish and Mackerel being caught in clip...returned, with Breakfast at Jack in the Box...Long Beach 171 to OCT Route 1, and 25 north on Goldenwest to 56 east on GG Blvd...simple morning!...back by 9:30 am!...there's another Ruby's at 2nd and PCH...for next time!...clear with half Moon above but some clouds turning to puff clouds as Sun came up, cool...

Deerslayer turned down another offer, and it's a puzzle too...(puzzles are for waiting at Bus Stops!!!)...Judith at the end of the story, proposes marriage to him...Deerslayer demures...is that the word?...brb...well, he is demure, and Judith an exotic beauty, so maybe Cooper just doesn't think they go together...there's a lot of discussion in the story of who goes together with who...and the character's discuss things a lot!...don't know but they could all sit around Charlie Rose's table and hold his attention with their intellectual chatter, which is out of keeping, maybe, though Indians could go into elaborate detail, I guess, with sophisticated rhetoric...thinking here of passages in George Washington's diaries, which may have been confabulated a bit, as one was captured by the French during the French Indian War, and published in France as propaganda against the British...there's a passage where an Indian Chief goes on about treaties and such...anyway, Cooper wrote for a time when folk read aloud to one another, and book stories that were drawn out likely fit the niche that soap operas do now-a-days...Cooper may have thought to continue the relationship between Deerslayer and Judith, but this was his last book, and it was a prequel to the previous Deerslayer books, which at the time had a kinda Star Wars popularity....one can see a bit of Deerslayer in Luke, and Hurry Harry in Han Solo!!!...Deerslayer is the prototype of the Western/Adventure Hero...

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“Judith:"And where, then, is your sweetheart, Deerslayer?"

Deerslayer: "She's in the forest, Judith - hanging from the boughs of the trees, in a soft rain - in the dew on the open grass - the clouds that float about in the blue heavens - the birds that sing in the woods - the sweet springs where I slake my thirst - and in all the other glorious gifts that come from God's Providence!”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer