"A Holding"

[Jochen Stremmel]

Perhaps Arthur means Harlot's Ghost. The book begins

On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine
coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist,
and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near
Bangor a thousand years ago.
      In the spring, after the planting of corn, the younger braves and
squaws would leave the aged to watch over the crops and the children, and
would take their birchbark canoes south for the summer. Down the Penobscot
River they would travel to Blue Hill Bay on the western side of Mount
Desert where my family’s house, built in part by my
great-great-grandfather, Doane Hadlock Hubbard, still stands. It is called
the Keep, and I do not know of all else it keeps, but some Indians came
ashore to build lean-tos each summer, and a few of their graves are among
us, although I do not believe they came to our island to die.

like that.

Am Mo., 2. Dez. 2019 um 18:44 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:

> I do not know of that Mailer work either...unless it is a story or
> article but
> William Eastlake wrote a good novel back in the day called
>
> Castle Keep. Made into a popular movie.
>
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 11:04 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm not familiar with that Mailer piece,  but I'm sure you know that a
> > "keep" is the fortified tower within a castle.  It is a place of last
> > refuge.
> >
> > David Morris
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 9:45 AM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Since you're acquainted with these words, can you tell me the origin of
> > > "the keep"? Norman Mailer wrote a book with that title, and I'm
> guessing
> > > that it means some kind of secondary property, not where one actually
> > lives
> > > but rather some hideaway in some forest or something.
> > >
> > > On Sun, Dec 1, 2019 at 11:48 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> A British term.
> > >>
> > >> It goes back a long British ways to  meaning owning earth.
> > >>
> > >> These days it means having a garden.
> > >>
> > >> At least I think so.
> > >>
> > >> David Morris
> > >> --
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> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Arthur
> > >
> > >
> > --
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