Cooper, Muir, Twain, and London

This is just a text post!...didn't get out...started another wow character, Deerdolphin, a paladin draenei...all day to get to level 15, much of it sorting through heirlooms, and purchasing heirlooms, and making enchants...well, I'll post a pic of the toon!

I cant really describe playing wow to someone who hasn't, and those who have will follow my comparison here immediately...

As the Valley was to me, and to Muir, Glimmer Glass was to Cooper, the Mississippi to Twain, and the Klondike to London...

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This is the school where the literary landscape painter should study; all the secrets of the art are here. From page to page the dangers present themselves naturally; there is no attempt to set the stage. You yourself seem to bend down, under the great trees, to mark the print of a moccasin. The perils spring so directly from the accidental features of the landscape that you examine attentively the rocks, the trees, the waterfalls, the bark canoes, the bushes. It is impossible to separate the earth, the trees, the waters from the incidents of the story which excite you. And the characters become, as they really are, of small account against the great scene which you scan without ceasing.
James Fenimore Cooper -- A Re-Appraisal
Papers from the 1951 James Fenimore Cooper Conference
Cooperstown, New York
Cooper Beyond AmericaWillard Thorp*
(Princeton University)

Published as New York History, Vol. 35, No. 4 (October, 1954), pp. 522-539.
(Special Issue -- James Fenimore Cooper: A Re-Appraisal)

http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/articles/nyhistory/1954nyhistory-thorp.html

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Balzac wrote the bit being quoted, and that quote illustrates my idea okay, but Balzac had another which I can't find, that went like  "if Cooper could do characters the way he does Glimmer Glass, he would be the master of all us writers"

Well, Cooper lived much of his life by Glimmer Glass, it was his home, and Yosemite Muir's, the Mississippi, Twain's, and the Klondike, London's...oh, they all moved around, but it's plain where they felt they belonged...authors relate often their "one true place"...as close as Verne could get to being Nemo was to live on his own yacht...Cousteau had Calipso...and Disney...well, had Disneyland!...and that makes perfect sense to me having worked in the maintenance department thereabout for seven years, and grown up, and lived off and on, within earshot of the Mark Twain, and Fireworks...come to think of it, I haven't heard of late the Mark Twain's whistle...hmmph...

and then there's wow...if you find yourself at the end of a session of gaming, and hearth back to Darkshore, and ride your Celestial Stead towards the Moon, then these things make a kinda perfect sense...(Moon wasn't up for pic, but CedarHawk howled on cue!)

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