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I began this paper with a confession. The web value rate of bigpicture.net is 49,209 USD. Be the first to contribute! Since in the South, as I had finally learned in Chapel Hill, history tends to breed myth as a kind of natural law, I needed at least to consider the question. bio notes: born: 4/13/1909 died: 7/23/2001 born as: Eudora Welty nationality: USA American short-story writer and novelist whose work is focused with great precision on the regional manners . Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1990. I benefited from these books as much as anyone. Both his grandfather and his father were struck by lightning. I loved the music, the food, the voices, the family stories, and to this day I cannot imagine life without them. Print. He walked through the streets of colored town as naturally as he walked to work. Mendelian randomization (MR) harnesses genetic variants as instrumental variables (IVs) to study the causal effect of exposure on outcome using summary statistics from genome-wide association studies. 90). 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. Right before it begins in force, a holy-ghostly benediction or aeolian charma wind touched each man on the forehead (Welty, Collected Stories 182)reassures the reader that all will be well, at least for the time being. There is no great central Southern myth in The Wide Net. But I must have half-remembered that the potency of the mythic, including a few old southern folktales or legends, does play a key role in the story, especially by pounding the pedal throughout on the truth that no myth, potent or not, can ever measure up to one mans solitary predicament. Recollections contains a fifty-page biographical essay by Forkner. As Welty adds in her autobiography, there were Edna Earles all over the South. But more than anything, in rereading the story I realized that my own fading or forgotten memories about growing up in the South had somehow dictated my choice, and that the mythic failures, or inadequacies, of The Wide Net to match the intractable selfhood of the living individual clearly harmonized with my own experience. He was a big man, steady and straight despite his age, and must have been a formidable force in making an arrest. I say this because when The Wide Net and Other Stories came out as a single volume in 1943, Time Magazine published a review that claimed that the stories were about as human as a fish. Eudora Welty was never much affected by reviews, good or bad, but this one raised her hackles, and she wrote to Diarmuid Russell: I saw the Time review but they say those things just because I happen to live in the southbut nobody else had better say I am unhuman (qtd. At this point the mythic and symbolic allusions begin to overwhelm, but I believe, as you know by now, that their very proliferation throws into high relief the singular nature of one mans all too human crisis. Think of another name in The Wide Net, Edna Earle. . Instead of one of the more conventional pieties, here was a crying out to both God and man against injustice. Old Doc reminds me of the old men in another great modern folk story, The Weavers Grave, by the Irish writer Seumas OKelly. He was a tall dignified man who dressed in a white suit and always had a Stetson hat on his head or in his hand. After politely answering my questions about the Hurston papers, he turned to me and spoke for a good thirty minutes about my grandfather. I grew up during segregation, but the racism was subdued, and codified down to a syllable and a glance. So I grew up surrounded by southern voices. Now that I have tried to do justice to my rereading of the story, which was, and is, my main purpose throughout these reflections, there should be no objection if I back up a bit and mention a few of the memories I carried with me when I entered the new world of the Old South at the university. Both his grandfather and his father were struck by lightning. There is the miraculous catch of fish, and the hymns William and Virgil hear while walking back home: They were having the Sacred Harp Sing on the grounds of an old white church glimmering there at the crossroads, far below. When William arrives alone at his house, he sees something he had never seen, a rainbow at night (Welty. Shortly after I finished graduate school and began to read more widely about the South I learned that Zora Neale Hurston had lived her last years in my home town, and was buried there. Even though there is no southern history in the story, surely his name is steeped in historical associations. The second date is today's Later in the story a violent storm with a blast of wind covers the entire search party with wet leaves. In. Though she is changing every day, she has really not changed at all. He made a sign for me to follow him in what was now a blind tunnel steaming with sweat and humidity. Had he suspected down there, like some secret, the real, the true trouble that Hazel had fallen into, about which words in a letter could not speak Or in a myth, I cannot help adding. Once again, however, we cannot escape the fact that names are chosen for us. They were even stronger reasons to question the myths of the South I later encountered. It has been a delightful day of adventure on the river for the Malones, the Doyles, and the others (including the reader), but the wide net (a sort of local myth itself) has caught nothing, except a haul of fish, a big eel, old shoes, the baby alligator, and a string of beads. The more common it is, however, the less likely it can be seized upon for special consideration. But the shifting, or loss of identity, is a constant threat. In leaving you now, I am reminded of an old story out of Georgia. They all belong together in the Mississippi chorus line, until William Wallace finally breaks away on his own. An Edna Earle is the narrator of Weltys novella The Ponder Heart. Updates? Print. As a matter of fact, he was a pillar of the community. But there were no old plantations or slave quarters, and no signs to mark the battles of the Civil War since there had been no battles. One of the most famous sons of a James was Bonnie Prince Charles, son of James Stuart, grandson of King James II, and leader of the final Jacobite Rebellion in the middle of the eighteenth century to restore the Scottish Stuarts to the throne of England and Scotland. 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. I believe my shock at having to account to myself as a southerner when I arrived in my early twenties in Chapel Hill, and faced the impressive body of scholarship on southern myth then in fashion, helps explain why. And we fished for the same fish from the same piers in the inlet. The one I want to tell about my grandfather concerns another man involved in the Zora Neale Hurston saga. He has recovered his memory too, and with it, we know now, a new power of self-direction, decision, and acceptance. She ends One Writers Beginnings with a celebration of memory that for her has now become a personal creed, and has allowed her to begin her life as a writer. Life on the Mississippi. date the date you are citing the material. Sweet-gum red, hickory yellow, dogwood red, sycamore yellow. I think my grandfathers reputation helped me too in an experience that will stay with me as long as I live. the second is . To me, there is more irony than history in the name William Wallace. 32But I digress, drifting with the memory. Soon, a storm comes, and the lightning strikes trees around the group as they watchit is rather exhilarating. 179). We bought ice cream at the same shop even though there were white and colored water fountains outside on opposite sides of the shop. He had earned the name by winning a juke joint contest for having the biggest feet in Florida. The grown-up Doyles and Malones are fixed in their undefined identities forever. It is more of a distraction than a signpost, unlike, I would be the first to admit, the names of Virgil and Hazel, more fixed in their roles.2 If we must look for hidden meanings, perhaps the symbolical would be a better avenue to explore than the historical. There doesn't seem to be a regularization effect from very high depth in residual net- works as wide networks with the same number of parameters as thin ones can learn same or better representations. . That was only part of the legend. Summary of the net Rating: 6,6/10 562reviews The "net" is a term that refers to the internet, which is a global network of interconnected computers and servers that allows people to communicate and access information from all around the world. One day on a summer trip to Homerville, my mother took me to a field in the countryside and showed me two old tombstones under a tree. The Collected Stories. Lush, precise, and unpredictable in every line, The Wide Net is one of the greatest odes to the natural world ever written. What I want to single out is not his place in the community, which was central, but his difference from most of the adult white men I knew and observed. Myths and legends and symbols are filled with wisdom, but it is the human spirit which has done the filling, and not the other way around. After all, where else can I look for a better source? The roses needed a lot of water. She ends. 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. The workers filed in, one by one with their lunch bags, and sat down on a wooden bench. 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