[MD] another glimpse of Lila

[Heather Perella]

Marsha:
> >I'm presently reading 'The Labyrinth of Solitude'.
> OMG, this book is about men, Mexican men, all men,
> the motherless child!!!

SA:  Have you ever heard of this book called "Once
Upon an Eskimo Time:  A year of Eskimo life before the
white man came as told to me by my wonderful mother
whose Eskimo name was Nedercook"?  It is an excellent
book!  Very vivid!  Nedercook's daughter Edna Wilder
wrote the book.  Nedercook was a young girl in the
storyline.  Here's a quote about Nedercook when she
about nine years old in a very dense fog one day as
follows:

     "Suddenly she realized that, fog or no fog, she
had walked too far without finding the ice she was
looking for.  Now she knew that it had floated away
during the dense ffog.  The old-squaw ducks were
making their calls from the water in front of her, but
she could not see them.  They sounded beautiful, so
musical, she loved to listen to them.  "Ar-ar-neak,"
she mimicked their calls for a while.  The walrus
sounds had moved so far to the west that she had to
listen to hear them and then it was only an occasional
faint sound.  The fog was so dense that it was almost
wet as she started back, following the shoreline.  She
traveled for a time and then stopped because she
thought that she had heard her name called very
faintly.  Listening, she heard her mother's voice
calling, 'Daughter?'
     'Mama!' she called back as she broke into a run
along the uneven terrain in the direction of her
mother's voice.  Soon she could see her mother's
figure.  As she got closer she saw that her mother
carried her walking stick.  'Worried about you,' her
mother said, 'You gone so long."


It is a very good read.


SA


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