The Wide Net. History and Overview of CSNET (PDF: 156KB) by Peter J. Denning, with Anthony Hearn and C. William Kern. Old Doc reminds me of the old men in another great modern folk story, The Weavers Grave, by the Irish writer Seumas OKelly. 12Once William and Virgil have gathered everyone together, they take the wide net and all set out walking down the Old Natchez Trace. The second is the date of The grown-up Doyles and Malones are fixed in their undefined identities forever. Still, as Old Doc exclaims to William: Everybody knows Pearl River is named the Pearl River (Welty. 1. Nature is the wide-open playground of both good and evil, and it is best to be wary when the thunder roars. There is Virgil of course, living up to his name (but only in the mind of the reader, we need to remember) in that he is there to guide William on his quest, to keep him on the track, as he says. The story recounts how Sister, the intelligent and ironic narrator, comes to fall out with her family over incidents arising from her younger sister Stella-Rondo's sudden reappearance in their small southern town, minus her husband and with a two-year-old "adopted" child in tow. Vergil. In The Wide Net there are too many myths to make a whole. cite this page as follows: "the wide net - summary"enotes publishinged. A reality that is, perhaps, a level or two beneath the conventional mode of realism. And, to tell the truth, the details are daunting, especially as we are led down the old Natchez Trace towards the Pearl River, deeper and deeper into southern river country, a vast cradle of natural wonder that teems with vitality and mystery. County judges are elected, and he never lost an election because there was never any opposition. Bigpicture.net registered under .NET top-level domain. The narration continues to speculate how (who knew?) Boyd, Valerie. We bought ice cream at the same shop even though there were white and colored water fountains outside on opposite sides of the shop. 181). CSNET bridged between the original (closed) ARPANET and the NSFNET (open) by . He made a sign for me to follow him in what was now a blind tunnel steaming with sweat and humidity. Old Mr. Winter will be standing in the door. Knowing Eudora Weltys love of Ireland and the Irish, the echo is surely deliberate. When he returned to his house, he found Hazel was not there, and she'd left a note saying that she had gone to drown herself in the river and that he'd be sorry for his behavior. Here is the same confused hodgepodge of myth and fable we can find in The Wide Net. They are the wonderful fictions out of which an adult life finally emerges, but never forgets. Then group returns to town, everyone carrying their heavy strings of fish. As Welty adds in her autobiography, there were Edna Earles all over the South. It runs in our family, Robbie says (Welty, Collected Stories 183).1 This is fatalism raised, or lowered, to farce, but points to a fear of being victimized by mysterious forces (without and within) that William Wallace himself must struggle against, and defeat. Later on I was given an army jeep salvaged from the war. They were later given to the University of Florida. [Anthony Herrera; Rachel McPherson; Marcus Viscidi; Kyra Sedgwick; Barry Tubb; Tim Ransom; M Josef Sommer; Glen Roven; Eudora Welty;] -- Set in rural Mississippi, the story focuses on the turbulent relationship of a young married couple, William Wallace and his wife Hazel, in the American South in 1933. But Hazel is no rabbit as Virgil makes clear: Anybody can freeze a. , that wants to he says, and promptly chases the rabbit away: Was you out catching cotton-tails, or was you out catching your wife? (Welty. But the shifting, or loss of identity, is a constant threat. A few of these stories were comic, but most of them dwelled on hardship and tragedy. Me and Benz tight as a pair of shoes. The whole shed shook with laughter, given the reference to his feet, and from that day on I was home free and part of the gang. William Wallace takes the lead back to Dover, and back to Hazel who has never left their house. William Wallace takes the lead back to Dover, and back to Hazel who has never left their house. This was not because it was dangerous, or unseemly; it was simply against the code. I met Foots the first day I was hired to work in a local fertilizer plant for the summer. bio notes: born: 4/13/1909 died: 7/23/2001 born as: Eudora Welty nationality: USA American short-story writer and novelist whose work is focused with great precision on the regional manners . Here time, also, is subject to confluence. I do not want to leave the impression that my grandfather was in any sense a rebel or an outsider. If there are three dates, the first date is the date of the original At least this is true of the first half of The Wide Net. The second half is a different matter entirely and herein lies one of the genial transformations that The Wide Net performs as naturally and as completely as one season turns into another. Right after he got back, though, some of his old friends met him at a local tavern and asked him if it were true that he had run away from the fight. Physically, he was everything the legend had promised. And finally, on the last page, memory is evoked again, this time in words to be engraved in stone: Of course the greatest confluence of all is that which makes up the human memorythe individual human memory. As we discover, we remember; remembering, we discover; and most intensely do we experience this when our separate journeys converge (Welty, One Writers Beginnings 102). His full name is William Wallace Jamieson. Are there many other collections of the time framed with a stronger cry against the harsh realities of human fate? One was the Florida artist A.E. He has coedited (with Patrick Samway) four anthologies of Southern literature: Stories of the Modern South (Penguin), Stories of the Old South (Penguin), A Modern Southern Reader (Peachtree) and A New Reader of the Old South (Peachtree). Later on I was given an army jeep salvaged from the war. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty was published in 1980. 4Rereading The Wide Net brought many of these memories back to mind, and it brought back to mind too my dismay in Chapel Hill at fitting them into a theory of myth, or even at weaving them into a common pattern of southern identity. The Wide Net Episode aired Feb 2, 1987 55 m IMDb RATING 8.6 /10 14 YOUR RATING Rate Comedy Drama Romance Add a plot in your language Director Anthony Herrera Writers Anthony Herrera Eudora Welty (story) Stars Elnora Chapman Boyce Holleman Tim Ransom See production, box office & company info Add to Watchlist 3 User reviews Photos Add photo Top cast She claims that she was hiding when he read her letter, and he spanks her, insisting that she say she'll never do it again. Once every now and then I rode my horse to school where there was a rail fence and where the teachers allowed us to eat our lunch sitting down by the horses. When William dives into the river, and emerges transformed, the myth-minded reader may then think once more of the Aeneid, and of the river Lethe which the original Virgil tells us must be imbibed by dead souls in order for them to be reborn. Still, the shock of my initial consternation never left me, thus my impulse to turn back to Eudora Welty and my memory of The Wide Net and its mysteries when I was invited to talk about the great myths of the South. Hazels name evokes the Celtic symbol of wisdom and the source of life hidden in underground water. They talked sometimes about a black giant named Foots. He could lift hundred-pound sacks of fertilizer with each hand. He himself would have been too modest to mention it. The thing about this part of the country in the great days is that people like Aaron Burr, J.J. Audubon, Lorenzo Dow, and goodness knows who, were as thick as blackbirds in the pie, and once the pie is opened, they are going to begin to sing (qtd. The Wide Net, short-story collection by Eudora Welty, published in 1943. My mother had met her and gave me the names of several people who had been her friends. They all carried their classic illustrations. After all, there were some brilliant minds at work on the subject, minds who could spot a stereotype or a caricature a hundred miles away, and there was much to learn. He goes with them to drag the river. 172). I located myself in these pages and could go straight to the stories and pictures I loved (Welty, One Writers Beginnings 8). For much of the story at least, William Wallace and the other characters are closer to the simple stock figures of song and legend than they are to men and women in the real world. What touched me more, and what I remember best now, were the lives around me while growing up. As Mr Duval finished, and stood up to leave, he reached out to me and shook my hand: Your granddaddy was the only white man I ever loved.. 29A few of these stories were comic, but most of them dwelled on hardship and tragedy. Foots was in charge. Press in the Library of Southern Civilization series. Wives and girlfriends would be gathered under the windows, and the banter and singing between them and the men in jail are impossible to exaggerate. William Wallace Jamieson, the first words of the story, and a name I will return to, is a young man who has been married to his wife, Hazel, for a year. William Wallace will soon demonstrate a stronger will in a more heroic gesture than catching a rabbit. There is Old Doc, the local wise man who owns the net. The packet switching technology was essential to the development of . I said earlier that the town was segregated, but with little visible racial tension. William must will himself into a new man, and as a Jamieson, he must cease being a perpetual son, and affirm his status as a father. 5I do not mean to suggest that I find anything of myself in William Wallace, nor in his search for Hazel. When he escaped he went back to his native state of Georgia and lived to a ripe old age. It runs in our family, Robbie says (Welty. Myths and legends and symbols are filled with wisdom, but it is the human spirit which has done the filling, and not the other way around. The narration speculates on what he experiences in the solitude of the river bottom: So far down and all alone, had he found Hazel? But I could not remember that it had revealed the slightest interest in the South as a subject of focus or reflection. It is enough to make Virgil sigh with despair: when you go looking for what is lost, everything is a sign (Welty, Collected Stories 179). Be the first to contribute! 23Think of another name in The Wide Net, Edna Earle. 32But I digress, drifting with the memory. I loved the music, the food, the voices, the family stories, and to this day I cannot imagine life without them. The absence of history serves the same purpose, I believe, as the excessive abundance of symbol and myth the reader must negotiate before setting his sights on the inner spirit William Wallace possesses to exist all by himself. He returns to his wife better capable of living a meaningful, fulfilling life. Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. It was a huge success, a romantic tome so overwritten and full of adjectives that Eudora Welty in her autobiography says her mother told her it used to be recommended to take it out with a chair when watering the roses. In the afternoons my friends and I would go down to the icehouse where sacks of ice were filled for the professional fishing boats. In my town there were cattle ranches and orange groves to the west, and a small fleet of shrimping boats chugging back and forth on the Indian River to and from the Atlantic. Had he suspected down there, like some secret, the real, the true trouble that Hazel had fallen into, about which words in a letter could not speak Or in a myth, I cannot help adding. Myths are necessary to our lives and imagination, especially as children. 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