"Laurie Marks - Elemental Logic 02 - Earth Logic" - читать интересную книгу автора (Marks Laurie)

Part 3: The Walk-Around

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Part 4: WhatтАЩs Inside the Buffalo

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Part 5: How Tortoise Woman Saved the World

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For the people of Melrose, MassachusettsтАФespecially the baristas, poets, counselors, babies,
delivery people, firemen, illegal parkers, students, parents, photographers, coffee drinkers,
jaywalkers, and neighbors. And also for the people who love snow, plant flowers, hang Christmas
lights, and refuse to put vinyl siding on their beautiful Victorian houses. And for their dogs and
cats, and for the crabby snapping turtle I rescued from the middle of the road one afternoon, and
for the flocks of geese that fly by overhead.




Acknowledgments

For four or more hours a day, for more than a year, I sat writing in the front window of a downtown
coffee shop, in sun and snow, warmth and chill. The people of Melrose came and went before and
around meтАФ and gradually they began waving hello, chatting, and inquiring about my progress. I am
grateful to themтАФ and I am equally grateful to the smiling young baristas who concocted my lattes,
visited my table to see if I needed a refill, and stayed to ask questions about writing, language, and
education. Thanks also to the friends who suffered through my incoherent first draft, the members of my
writing group, the GenrettesтАФ Delia Sherman, Rosemary Kirstein, and Didi Stewart. And, when this
book hadтАФwith their helpтАФmoved beyond its early confusion, even more people read the manuscript
and helped me to see how to finish it: Amy Axt Hanson, Diane Silver, Jeanne Gomol, Debbie Notkin,
Deb Manning, my agent, Donald Maass, and my beloved Deb Mensinger. As my life is so filled with
kind, intelligent, generous friends, itтАЩs no surprise this book is filled with them as well.
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RavenтАЩs Joke



One day, Raven was bored. He left his home in the cliff that can be found at the end of the world and
went flying back and forth over the forest, until he noticed a woman sneaking through the trees. The