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Title: Two from New Orleans
Author : New Orleans Review
Release Date : January 01, 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
Pages : * pages
Size : 71 KB

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At midnight, I counted seven empty wine bottles on Bebe Nesbitt's dining room table--one for each guest, one for each word that rose from the past, involuntary as hiccups, when Bebe turned the conversation to childhood: "Kingdom. Phylum. Class. Order. Family. Genus. Species." Now, it's true that we had been chuckling over my prized collection of non sequiturs, but this was different; this was Dad addressing me from the grave in a baritone that brought to mind the cool exhalations of hidden mine shafts--a familiar hazard to those, like Bebe, who bird or botanize on the overgrown slopes and spoil banks of our mineral-rich cordillera. Up there, a few stray lambs disappear every year. Men in blaze-orange garb are always plunging into darkness, breaking their legs, sleeping on ledges, and worrying their families half to death--this despite the government signs dotting the countryside, which offer the following caution to wanderers: "The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there."