@Taskerland Erudition without analysis you say

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@Taskerland Sir, I was thinking of myself.

@Taskerland Only at dogs.

@Printdevil @Taskerland New character quirk just dropped @RogerBW

@Taskerland "The wild" takes on an entirely different dimension when it's literally outside your front door a few dozen paces in the high arctic (my home in Inuvik was at the edge of town; open our door, walk about ... call it three dozen paces, and you're in the genuine wilderness). Or when it's outside your tent flap on a weeks'-long journey where there is absolutely no visible sign of humanity in any direction in northern B.C.

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@Taskerland "The wild" is not some destination you visit to experience "enlightenment" (the Buddhist temple is over there) before returning home to your comfortable middle class lifestyle chomping down on cucumber sandwiches (crusts cut off!) and guzzling tea. It's an entity of its own and if you've ever truly experienced it you'll not write tawdry, flowery, prose about it. You'll write wild, shamanic poetry (Chuci) or tell tales of incomprehensible power (Haida/Tlingit) about it.

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@Taskerland (Postscript: I may have a bit of a grudge against people who think wandering around well-regulated, carefully-cultivated, artfully-arranged land is somehow "connecting with nature".)

"Non Ducor, Duco!" He shrieked as the Spaniel hauled him up the road at breakneck pace chasing squirrels.

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I like the comment "Legend has it he is still running after Fenton"

it's a very spoken over the end of a film line.

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My last two were called Tobias and Renfeldt.

But they were both on paper things like "Montogomery Brockleton Twist the II from the House of PansyAuras"

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@Taskerland Is it typical of me to find the idea that the ashes of the dead alter the chemistry of a place the most fascinating bit in that, rather that the point you're making?

@Taskerland Even in the midst of a point about MacFarlane's privation from grounded thought, we find a plot in a review.