Baker had appeared recently at a Canadian book festival, an event that the blogger claimed was woefully underattended, like Salter's reading.

I went to Coach Beamer and, because we had a lot of outside linebackers, ask him if I could play rover.

Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morne / Upon her wings presents the god unshorne. / See how Aurora throwes her faire / Fresh-quilted colours through the aire; / Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see / The dew bespangling herbe and tree.

Like the Mesolithic age of 10,000-8000 B.C., the period 6000-4000 B.C. seems to be one of the fall of fortresses and the rise of pastoral nomadism.