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The Quotable Fisherman

The Quotable Fisherman

by Nick; Robinson, Alan James Lyons

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Hardcover
ISBN 13
9781558217171
ISBN 10
1558217177
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Boone, North Carolina, United States
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NZ$20.27
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With 90 one- to four-page long essays ranging from "Gonzo Fishing" to "When You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Take Him Fishing," Quinnett (Pavlov's Trout and Darwin's Bass) clearly views angling as a necessary adjunct to life. Fishing is a chancy endeavor, otherwise, he notes, "[t]hey'd call it catching." Quinnett, a psychologist specializing in suicide, sees the pursuit of trout et al. as a metaphor for the good and interesting life. It leads to clockless dreamlands away from the chaos of everyday work. And, by his calculations, it makes great economic sense, with a decent rod and reel costing only .043 pennies a day?for a person who lives 28,000 days. "If you can't see the logic of this," he writes, "you are obviously not a fisherman." A fisherman himself for half a century, Quinnett recalls the public civility and private anguish of old-timers when newcomers catch a giant bass with nothing but beginner's luck; and discusses the bad or funny things that must happen to fishermen because "[a] fishing… Read More
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