Good Fences Make Good Neighbors

[Joel S. Berson]

Talking fences--a technological advance?  A Bush initiative, for
border control?

Joel

At 6/9/2006 01:32 PM, you wrote:
>I once read of a professional fence who quoted the line frequently.
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>   JL
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>OK, but keep in mind that the speaker of the poem suggests that blind=20
>adherence to the notion that good fences make good neighbors is rather fooli=
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>Frost himself seems more than a little skeptical. Why build a fence
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>In a message dated 6/8/06 12:41:34 PM, cxr1086 at LOUISIANA.EDU writes:
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> > A colleague, Margaret Freeman, wrote the following paragraph in a recent
> > paper on "Mending Wall"
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> > That significance, as George Monteiro (1988:126-129) has shown us, is
> > deeply embedded in two historical, cultural domains: the existence of a
> > Spanish proverbial saying (una pared entre dos vezinos guarda mas (haze
> > durar) la
> > amistad) which goes back "at least to the Middle Ages" and was recorded
> > by Emerson in his journal of 1832 as "A wall between both, best
> > preserves friendship"; and the myth of the god of boundaries, named
> > Terminus by the Romans, who celebrated a Terminalia festival each year
> > on February 23 (in early spring) when "neighbors on either side of=A0 any
> > boundary gathered around the landmark" to offer sacrifice to the god and
> > celebrate with a feast.
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> > The 1988 book is: Montiero, George. Robert Frost and the New England
> > Renaissance. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988.
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> > --Clai Rice
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