GooberMcNutly wrote:

That's a heck of a good bacon cooler. It's like a 5 page Willa Cather novel of the new century.

Heck of an article.

Baywolfe wrote:

Sherlock Holmes' critique on the country.

“Do you know, Watson,” said he, “that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.”

“Good heavens!” I cried. “Who would associate crime with these dear old homesteads?”

“They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”

And having lived there for years, I am in total agreement.