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courage - what book inspired it?
#1

Hi all,
I was wondering if anybody knew if their was a particular book written by Hugh Mclennan that spawned the idea in Mr. Downie's mind to write Courage. Any help on this topic would be greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance ! Big Grin
Daken
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#2

Hi Daken - that would be "The Watch That Ends The Night"
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#3

ok thanks man!!!
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#4

not a problem - it's a great book, enchanting in it's own little way. I would highly suggest reading it. Or if you'd like to get a good synopsis of it and how it relates back to 'courage', might I suggest <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.hipmuseum.com">www.hipmuseum.com</a><!-- w -->. Mr. Dame's web site is very, very good, and I just noticed that there is an appreciation thread running for it in this very forum, so if you like it, let him know! Consider this my HipMuseum appreciation post :-) Thanks Dame!
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#5

I've actually read it. It's pretty good. I recommend it.
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#6

I really enjoyed this book, I'm not a huge reader and this one seemed a bit intimidating (anything over 400pgs seems intimidating to me) but it was great, I'm looking to buy a nice hard cover of it someday
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#7

I finally found a copy of that book, in some used book store in Toronto.

read it, then lent it to a girl I was seeing,

I made the mistake of ending things without getting the book back.

It was such a wicked old school copy as well, I miss it so much.

I think she burned it.
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#9

beanmedic Wrote:http://www.hipbase.com/faq/index.php?p=all#a36

Wicked! :thumb:
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#10

i really want to read it now, im going to get a copy....


the one really interesting thing is that my friend was in english; and the teacher administered certain passages from canadian authors to be analysed by people; and my friend got the part of the book which gord directly rips off in courage (the human tragedy, consists in the necessity part). Kinda fun
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