With the greatest of pleasure.
Cheers,
PaulH.
----- Original Message -----
From: Barney Gaylord <barneymg@ntsource.com>
To: <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>; <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 2:00 AM
Subject: Re: Sort-of LBC
> Paul,
>
> I dig it! I suppose I don't need your permission for this, but I would
> like post this excerpt on my web site in the Grapes of Wrath Repairs
section.
> http://www.ntsource.com/~barneymg/grapes
>
> Just asking for your permission to attach your name to the submission.
>
> Barney Gaylord
> 1958 MGA with an attitude
> http://www.ntsource.com/~barneymg
> ___________________
> At 03:56 PM 10/7/2000 +0100, paul.hunt1@virgin.net wrote:
> >"Al, bent over the wheel, kept shifting eyes from the road to the
instrument
> >panel, watching the ammeter needle, which jerked suspiciously, watching
the
> >oil gauge and the heat indicator. And his mind was cataloguing weak
points
> >about the car. He listened to the whine, which might be the rear end,
dry;
> >and he listened to tappets lifting and falling. He kept his hand on the
> >gear lever, feeling the turning gears through it."
> >
> >"Listen to the motor. Listen to the wheels. Listen with your ears and
with
> >your hands on the steering wheel; listen with the palm of your hand on
the
> >gearshift lever; listen with your feet on the floorboards. Listen to the
> >pounding old jalopy with all your senses; for a change of tone, what a
> >variation of rhythym might mean. That rattle - that's tappets. Don't
hurt
> >a bit. Tappets can rattle till Jesus comes again without no harm. But
that
> >thudding as the car moves along - can't hear that - just kind of feel it.
> >Maybe oil isn't gettin' someplace. Maybe a bearing's startin' to go..."
> >
> >The Grapes Of Wrath
> >John Steinbeck
> >
> >It was near life and death for the people Steinbeck was writing about,
but
> >does it strike a chord?
> >
> >PaulH.
>
>
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