On Sat, 08 Jul 2000 17:41:21 -0600
"Lucy Chandler Brandt" <[log in to unmask]>wrote
>I read the book, _Girl of the Limberlost_ as a small girl, and if
memory
>serves, the Limberlost was a swamp.
I knew I wasn't imagining things. Thank you, Lucy
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On Sun, 9 Jul 2000 02:28:59 +0100
"Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>wrote
>At the turn of the century, the Limberlost Swamp was described as a
>"treacherous swamp and quagmire, filled with every plant, animal and
>human danger known -- in the worst of such locations in the central
states."
Thanks for that, Robin. So I suppose, by association, it could come to
mean any such place, real or metaphysical. There is something about the
sound and rhythm of the word that seems to suggest that, anyhow.
Dave
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