Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Barbara and Lance live in an uncompleted summer cabin that belongs to friends. Inside, insulation bulges out from between, the exposed uprights of the walls; partition separate the interior into three small rooms at the front and a large kitchen-dining-living-bedroom that looks out through windows over a...
Lance is a writer; as he puts it, he and Barbara "came out of retirement" for several weeks this summer to make some money. In the middle of August, when they'd made enough, they went back into retirement. One of his friends describes Lance's personal philosophy of labor...
Last summer, before going into retirement for the first time, Lance drove gasoline trucks through burning timberland in the Kenai Fire to supply the vehicles of the forest-fire fighting crews; it paid very well. When the fire was out, Lance published an article about it in a fireman's...
He spent most of last winter writing a novel, Memoirs of Captain Brown, based on the life of a man who ran away to Alaska in the thirties at the age of thirteen to become a fisherman. Captain Brown has had the kind of experiences that are more likely to...
Lance has mixed feelings about the two years of graduate study in writing that he's done- "Graduate writing courses are mainly concerned with teaching people how to teach other people how to write. They get involved in the question of whether it's really possible for a writer to...