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   From: omeallymd@geemail.com   
      
   On 2020-06-05 13:45:46 +0000, Stan Brown said:   
      
   > On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 19:53:49 -0400, Bill O'Meally wrote:   
   >>   
   >> And you can bet he used a (non-motorized) push mower!  Can you imagine   
   >> his dismay in his suburban existence at the noise of lawn equipment and   
   >> their 'infernal combustion engines'? :-)   
   >   
   > i had to buy a new lawn mower recently, and not a battery-powered one   
   > from Home Depot. It's just as powerful as a gasoline-powered one, but   
   > among its many advantages is that it's a LOT less noisy.   
      
   'Not' a battery powered one?  You mean a *manual* push mower?  I got   
   one once and did not find it to work very well, and it took lots of   
   effort even when I was 20 years younger!  Tolkien was just a couple   
   years younger than me now when he wrote those letters.  Could have just   
   been a poor quality model.   
      
   >   
   >> As for Mabel Tolkien, he went as far to view his mother as a being   
   >> martyr to the Catholic faith.   
   >   
   > That always seemed kind of over the top to me.   
      
   Though it did cement his faith.  That and his relationship with Father   
   Francis Morgan.   
      
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