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Old 03-22-2009, 01:32 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by fatlazyless View Post
If you will read the poem Mending Wall written by Derry NH native, Robert Frost, in 1914, you can visualize how "good fences make good neighbors."
Actually, Frost's point is that fences do not make good neighbors. Repairing a stone wall between their properties gives him an annual chance to catch up with his neighbor, but therefore it is the "gaps" in the wall that make good neighbors.

He mocks his neighbor for steadfastly repeating his father's adage.

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilre...t-mending.html

No thoughts on Rt. 109, as it has been several years since I have been up on that side of the lake.
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