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Excerpt from Blandings' Way You're always hearing something go click, said Mr. Blandings.i'm not always doing anything of the sort, said Mrs. Blandings. At that instant Mr. Blandings heard something go click. He braced himself for a triumphant rejoinder from his wife, but to his surprise she gave no sign, and her eyes did not rise from the sweater on which she was sewing a name tape. There was a silence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.… (altro)
Blandings' Way by Eric Hodgins is the sequel to the hilarious roman a clef, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Now that the house is built, the Blandings family settle in with being residents of a small Connecticut town.
The problem of purchasing or building a larger home on cheaper land, out in the countryside away from one's job is the commute. Daily routines stop being about family meals and become instead about getting to and from work. Lingering too long over morning coffee means a missed train. A late night in the office means a night in the city away from family. Finally, there's a cultural disconnect that develops between the home town and city; they don't share the same issues or follow the same ebb and flow.
The Blandings family goes through all these states. The daughters, sent away to school, grow into their own people and take their parents by surprise. Mrs. Blandings as a homemaker is perhaps the most in tune with their adopted town. She becomes a gardener and in her exuberance over does it in a few places but still manages to make Blandings Way a better home.
The person suffering the most from the move is naturally Mr. Blandings. He is the one commuting. He is the one living half his day in Manhattan's hustle and bustle and the other half in a sleepy Connecticut town that can trace its roots back to colonial days. He more than anyone feels the need to find a niche for himself in his adopted town.
Now interestingly, Mr. Blandings and his home are modeled on real life. Eric Hodgins was the vice president of Time Inc and did build a home in New Milford, Connecticut. The expenses of maintaing the house ended up being too much for him and he had to short sell the place a few years later. In 1992, The New York Times published an article about the house. Interestingly, too, there are now copies of the home scattered across the country in part as a promotion for the release of the film Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. ( )
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The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right. --Judge Learned Hand
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Outside the house it was so cold that the earth rang like slag.
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Was there anything sadder than the contents of an old filing cabinet? A scrap book, a diary, were much less sad, into the scrapbook went things that had turned out right, into the diary -- well, Mr. Blandings had never kept a diary, and spent a moment in grateful thanks. But an old filing cabinet contained things that were going to turn out right, except that when you looked at them again, none of them had. What had been enthusiasm five years ago was in retrospect mere fatuousness, what had seemed like wisdom turned out to be the purest sort of miscalculation; events had paid no attention to the wisdom, had not make it wrong so much as ludicrously off the point -- the wisdom was a dam built to contain a river that had then shifted its course and left a huge barrier of piled-up thoughts crumbling in a desert; a monument to miscalculation and inacuity. (p. 9)
I do believe that every man has his destiny, but perhaps in asking that my destiny should give me pleasure I have asked too much. Perhaps, then, if I narrow my focus to include only that for which I have a demonstrated capacity I may find my existence more easily endured. (p. 314)
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If I spent the rest of my days devoted to what I do best; if I eschew, from now on, any distraction of ideas or activities that are not in this ken, there is every good likelihood that I shall be able to scale my peak, three words at a time, three words at a time, until at last I achieve my summit; and looking about me discover there is no longer anything visible at all.
Excerpt from Blandings' Way You're always hearing something go click, said Mr. Blandings.i'm not always doing anything of the sort, said Mrs. Blandings. At that instant Mr. Blandings heard something go click. He braced himself for a triumphant rejoinder from his wife, but to his surprise she gave no sign, and her eyes did not rise from the sweater on which she was sewing a name tape. There was a silence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The problem of purchasing or building a larger home on cheaper land, out in the countryside away from one's job is the commute. Daily routines stop being about family meals and become instead about getting to and from work. Lingering too long over morning coffee means a missed train. A late night in the office means a night in the city away from family. Finally, there's a cultural disconnect that develops between the home town and city; they don't share the same issues or follow the same ebb and flow.
The Blandings family goes through all these states. The daughters, sent away to school, grow into their own people and take their parents by surprise. Mrs. Blandings as a homemaker is perhaps the most in tune with their adopted town. She becomes a gardener and in her exuberance over does it in a few places but still manages to make Blandings Way a better home.
The person suffering the most from the move is naturally Mr. Blandings. He is the one commuting. He is the one living half his day in Manhattan's hustle and bustle and the other half in a sleepy Connecticut town that can trace its roots back to colonial days. He more than anyone feels the need to find a niche for himself in his adopted town.
Now interestingly, Mr. Blandings and his home are modeled on real life. Eric Hodgins was the vice president of Time Inc and did build a home in New Milford, Connecticut. The expenses of maintaing the house ended up being too much for him and he had to short sell the place a few years later. In 1992, The New York Times published an article about the house. Interestingly, too, there are now copies of the home scattered across the country in part as a promotion for the release of the film Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. (