A man named William Wallace Jamieson has a pregnant wife called Hazel, and he's been going out a lot lately until finally, one night, he stays out all night. At least this is true of the first half of The Wide Net. The second half is a different matter entirely and herein lies one of the genial transformations that The Wide Net performs as naturally and as completely as one season turns into another. Edna Earle could sit and ponder all day on how the little tail of the C got through the L in a Coca-Cola sign (Welty. date the date you are citing the material. The more common it is, however, the less likely it can be seized upon for special consideration. Hazel wands were traditionally used as dowsing rods. Hazel wands were traditionally used as dowsing rods. I benefited from these books as much as anyone. As we discover, we remember; remembering, we discover; and most intensely do we experience this when our separate journeys converge (Welty, One Writers Beginnings 102). Sam wore them around his head, with a knot over his forehead and loops around his ears, and Robbie Bell walked behind and stared at them (Welty, Collected Stories 179). Of course these signs and symbols enrich the story at the same time they divert William Wallace from his search. William Wallace knows now that Hazel holds the secret mystery that will continue to make him more of his own man, and he is willing to follow her lead as long as it takes: He climbed to his feet too and stood beside her trying to look where she looked. [] Any day now the change will come. Once every now and then I rode my horse to school where there was a rail fence and where the teachers allowed us to eat our lunch sitting down by the horses. LCRI Net-Zero 2050: U.S. Economy-Wide Deep Decarbonization Scenario Analysis # Executive Summary As part of the Low-Carbon Resources Initiative open in new window (LCRI), EPRI and GTI Energy led an integrated energy system scenario modeling exercise to evaluate alternative technology strategies for achieving economy-wide net-zero emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2) in the United States by 2050. 7William Wallace Jamieson, the first words of the story, and a name I will return to, is a young man who has been married to his wife, Hazel, for a year. she had been filled to the brim with that elation that they all remembered, like their own secret, the elation that comes of great hopes and changes (Welty. Updates? My own is the treasure most dearly regarded by me, in my life and in my work as a writer. Hazels name evokes the Celtic symbol of wisdom and the source of life hidden in underground water. His edition of Alexander Stephens prison diary, Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens, was published by L.S.U. I could easily call to mind other memories that would deepen and darken the story. 183). Lush, precise, and unpredictable in every line, The Wide Net is one of the greatest odes to the natural world ever written. Among everything else, he was generous almost to a fault. William goes to get his friend, Virgil, with whom he'd spent the night carousing, and the pair of them round up some neighborhood men to drag the river. Each visitor makes around 4.39 page views on average. He possesses an old mans horde of lifelong certitudes. The Wide Net has been one of my favorite stories for at least forty years. . We bought ice cream at the same shop even though there were white and colored water fountains outside on opposite sides of the shop. Us is the fishes (Welty. The workers, all black men, would let us sit on the blocks of ice waiting to be crushed. Though she is changing every day, she has really not changed at all. This blend of domestic realism with mythology and ancient fertility tales is characteristic of the entire collection, in which ordinary people are somehow connected to the myths of other cultures. I was fifteen years old, and was the only white in the group of workers. Even as I write, the memories come flooding, but two or three should be enough to make my case. If there are three dates, the first date is the date of the original She is in her early twenties (an age we might give to William Wallace) when she discovers the gift of memory, and in her seventies when she confirms it: Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. Faced with the most serious crisis of his young life, William at least has the resourcefulness to ask help from one of his friends from the night out, Virgil Thomas, and they set out to borrow the wide net from Old Doc, and to gather other members of the community to help drag the river. It is enough to make Virgil sigh with despair: when you go looking for what is lost, everything is a sign (Welty, Collected Stories 179). They were later given to the University of Florida. I should make it clear it was not the quality of the scholarship in what I read that puzzled me, but my consternation in not finding anything of my own life in the popular myths contained in the books. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc, 1980. Here time, also, is subject to confluence. They all carried their classic illustrations. Beanie deserves his own story. She is one of Hazels cousins. He returns to his wife better capable of living a meaningful, fulfilling life. 13There is certainly no question that Williams dive to the bottom of the river brings him up a new man. But the town itself was lively and busy and relatively sheltered from the poverty and misery that remained a plague throughout the greater South even in the 1950s. I have tried to explain, to myself more than to anyone else, that the multiplication of myth and legend in The Wide Net is there, in all its rich jumbling, to nudge the reader elsewhere. It was, however, filled with southerners. He plays his role well, lost in his own performance, an unstoppable gramophone of platitudes, talking just to hear himself talk, but sometimes, almost despite himself, repeating nuggets of wisdom that bear directly on the quest itself: Were walking along in the changing-time. In the afternoons my friends and I would go down to the icehouse where sacks of ice were filled for the professional fishing boats. I wanted to talk to him, so my mother invited him over to the house. 1. After all, for William it is only October and the baby will not be born until April (fall and rebirth go hand in hand in this story). The first page of Tim Berners-Lee's proposal for the World Wide Web, written in March 1989 (Image: CERN) Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first proposal for the World Wide Web in March 1989 and his second proposal in May 1990.Together with Belgian systems engineer Robert Cailliau, this was formalised as a management proposal in November 1990. Just as William Wallace is beset on all sides by a welter of signs, until he forgets the name of the Pearl River and takes his dive to the bottom, the reader is mystified by the dazzling parade of mythical allusions until he too reaches the same place. My mother had met her and gave me the names of several people who had been her friends. Still, the shock of my initial consternation never left me, thus my impulse to turn back to Eudora Welty and my memory of The Wide Net and its mysteries when I was invited to talk about the great myths of the South. Myth may help shape an identity, but memory is the single vital source of selfhood, and the key, I believe, to William Wallace and The Wide Net. Despite the help of the search party, the willingness of the community to lend a hand, William Wallace must forget the outside world before he plunges into the inner, and by so doing, he recovers Hazel, who as Old Doc knows, has been there all the time. For one thing, I think I would have trouble arguing to myself, or to my wife and family, that I never existed, even as a boy, yet Eudora Welty is writing in the tradition of the modern folk tale. There is one more story about my grandfather that I need to relate. When he wakes up he affirms his new sense of power and potency by tying a catfish to his belt and launching into a wild Dionysian dance. Then there are the other adult members of the search party, the six Doyle brothers and their dogs, and the eight Malone brothers, eight giants with great long black eyelashes (Welty. Vergil. 30But these Georgia tales were of the kind that Eudora Welty describes as old and complete in Asphodel, one of the short stories in The Wide Net. It is enough to make Virgil sigh with despair: when you go looking for what is lost, everything is a sign (Welty. I said earlier that the town was segregated, but with little visible racial tension. They talked sometimes about a black giant named Foots. note:when citing an online source, it is important to include all necessary dates. When William dives into the river, and emerges transformed, the myth-minded reader may then think once more of the Aeneid, and of the river Lethe which the original Virgil tells us must be imbibed by dead souls in order for them to be reborn. online is the same, and will be the first date in the citation. It seemed odd to me too when I began thinking about the challenge of adding anything new to a debate that as we all know began long before the South became the South. He hated fighting, but he had never lost a fight, and all his rivals had given up trying. This is fatalism raised, or lowered, to farce, but points to a fear of being victimized by mysterious forces (without and within) that William Wallace himself must struggle against, and defeat. Later on I was told that the killers were black men, and that members of our family had made sure they were given a fair trial. On rereading the story I soon realized that my instincts had not failed me completely. But they remain children, and act their age. A man and a woman, unknown to each, but sharing the commonality of being from the North, meet in New Orleans and commence upon a strange tour that almost verges on the romantic, but gets only as far as one hesitant kiss. What was her first novel and when was it published? 41Just as William Wallace is beset on all sides by a welter of signs, until he forgets the name of the Pearl River and takes his dive to the bottom, the reader is mystified by the dazzling parade of mythical allusions until he too reaches the same place. 179). The memory is a living thingit too is in transit. 11The strongest proof of identity is the capacity to change, to slip from one role to another if necessary, to pass through the modes of being that nature and time demand, but always to remain at one with oneself. In many respects he cherished the community as much as his family, but it had to be the whole community, white and black. William Wallace takes the lead back to Dover, and back to Hazel who has never left their house. The black families had moved in the same direction to escape their hard lives as sharecroppers and a harsher form of racial discrimination. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty was published in 1980. It begins with the story of a deaf boy whose parents have been killed or captured by the Indians and who is left abandoned in the end, completely alone: He did not know how far he had gone on the Liberty Road when the posse came riding up behind and passed him. But there is an even better reason not to insist too much on the historical significance of names in The Wide Net. Names are chosen for us, not the other way around, and The Wide Net insists upon individual choice as the primary measure of character. When I was invited to speak about the myth of the South, the thought of Weltys The Wide Net, came to my mind in a flash. Eudora Welty: A Biography. The name of Edna Earle comes from the heroine of the most popular novel in the South after the Civil War, St Elmo by Augusta Jane Evans. I learned that several young ancestors had been killed fighting for the Confederacy or had died soon after the war from disease. The Rebellion failed, and Bonnie Prince Charles escaped to become another legend of Scottish resistance. Boys, he said, I didnt run, but I did some mighty high walking. I hope I have not run away from the myth of the South, but I admit I may have done some high walking. Thank you for the indulgence, and the invitation. And after a few minutes she took him by the hand and led him into the house, smiling as if she were smiling down on him (Welty, What is missing in my account of rereading the story is my misremembering the total absence of southern history, a conspicuous absence. When she allows William his ritual role of thinking himself the man of the house by letting him tamely slap and spank her, the reconciliation is complete. Trans. We may take this with a grain of salt, but the fascination with Scottish heroes in the South would have made the name of William Wallace a common choice. Its so sad that the culture that could have put these good hearted folks bare-feet in the creek was long ago swallowed up by progress. History and Overview of CSNET (PDF: 156KB) by Peter J. Denning, with Anthony Hearn and C. William Kern. In those days the post office had a small shop that sold tobacco and newspapers. When he comes back the next morning, Hazel is gone, and he finds a letter from her telling him she has gone to drown herself in the river. 1 Robbie is right to be frightened. CSNET bridged between the original (closed) ARPANET and the NSFNET (open) by . The thing about this part of the country in the great days is that people like Aaron Burr, J.J. Audubon, Lorenzo Dow, and goodness knows who, were as thick as blackbirds in the pie, and once the pie is opened, they are going to begin to sing (qtd. I had suspected something like this as a boy, but now it was confirmed. She could have easily searched out one of the old Backus crowd willing to share the memory of Beanies role in the funeral and the missing headstone. Williams dive is not a baptism for the faint-hearted. Synopsis It looks like we don't have a Synopsis for this title yet. The storm in The Wide Net seems bent more on celebration than punishment, however. It syncs contacts, emails, and events from email tools to Salesforce. The second date is today's 2On rereading the story I soon realized that my instincts had not failed me completely. Robert Fitzgerald. After all, where else can I look for a better source? For one thing, I think I would have trouble arguing to myself, or to my wife and family, that I never existed, even as a boy, yet Eudora Welty is writing in the tradition of the modern folk tale. William Wallace is beset on all sides by distractions, advice, omens, signs of all sorts. if there are three dates, the first date is the date of the original publication in traditional print. The Great Wide Sea (2008), a novel by M. H. Herlong, follows sixteen-year-old Ben Byron, who mourns the loss of his mother with his younger brothers, Gerry and Dylan, while spending a year at sea.As Ben processes his grief, he clashes with his father, until he mysteriously vanishes from the boat one morning. That was only part of the legend. We may remember his prayer: If only the golden bough/Might shine for us in such a wilderness! (Vergil, 166). I grew up during segregation, but the racism was subdued, and codified down to a syllable and a glance. 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