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Inhabited Garden. The New World smelled good from the beginning. Columbus noted that "there came so fair and sweet a smell of flowers or trees from the land, that it was the sweetest thing in the world." Almost a century later, Sir Walter Raleigh's colonists, aboard ship off the southeast coast, inhaled "so strong a smel, as if we had bene in the midst of some delicate garden abounding in all kinde of odoriferous flowers, by which we were assured, that the land could not be farre distant...
...Sweetest Thing." These little sorties against the social system give Turgenev the opportunity for digging deeply into human motives and habits. The profligate landowners, the simpering clerks, the passionate but suppressed girls whom Turgenev paints are universal types, recognizable in any environment. And some of his best stories have nothing to do with serfdom: The Singers, a rousing account of a singing duel between a peasant and a tradesman which ends in a drunken debauch, and Bezhin Meadow, a tender portrait of a group of boys whom the sportsman meets one evening...
...never imposes himself on his characters, never plays ricks on them or the reader. It is this tone of creative tact which so impressed two American storytellers, Sherwood Anderson and Ernest Hemingway, when they first looked for literary models. Anderson once called A Sportsman's Notebook "the sweetest thing in all literature."* If he exaggerated...
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...Claus was reached only by following a labyrinth of railings designed to keep a large crowd in an orderly line. Luckily, there was almost no line, and when Santa had taken care of three serious-faced youngsters. I asked him how he liked his job. "Why, it's the sweetest job I've ever had. Just sitting here all day. Sure, and it'd suit me foine if it lasted clear 'til June...