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(回答先: テスト 投稿者 FormerFrontrunnerDean 日時 2006 年 8 月 11 日 17:06:14)
"This is Glenn Gould this programme is called The Idea of North. I've long been intrigued by that incredible tapestry of tundra and taiga which constitutes the arctic and sub-arctic of our country. I've read about it, written about it, and even pulled up my parka once and gone there. Yet like all but a very few Canadians I've had no real ex I've long been intrigued by that incredible tapistry of tundra and taiga which constitutes the arctic and sub-arctic of our country. I've read about it, written about it, and even pulled up my parka once and gone there. Yet like all but a very few Canadians I've had no real experience of the North. I've remained, of necessity, an outsider. And the North has remained for me, a convenient place to dream about, spin tall tales about, and, in the end, avoid.
This programme, however, brings together some remarkable people who have had a direct confrontation with that northern third of Canada, who've lived and worked there and in whose lives the North has played a very vital role. There's a geographer and anthropolgist, Jim Lotz; a sociologist, Frank Valee; a government official, Bob Phillips; and a nurse, Marianne Schroeder. There's also a fifth character and therein lies a story.
Several years ago I went North aboard a train known affectionately to Westerners as the Muskeg Express-- Winnipeg to Fort Churchill- 1,015 miles, two nights, one day, four double bedrooms, eight sections, diner and coach. And at breakfast I struck up a conversation with one W.B. McLean, or as he was known along the line and at all the hamlet sitings where his bunk car would be parked, Wally. Wally McLean is a surveyor, now retired, and within the first minutes of what proved to be a day-long conversation, he endeavored to persuade me of the metaphorical significance of his profession. He parlezed surveying into a literary tool, even as Jorge Luis Borge manipulates mirrors, and Franz Kafka badgers beetles. And as he did so I began to realize that his relation to a craft, which has as its subject, the land, enabled him to read the signs of that land, to find in the most minute measurement, a suggestion of the infinate, to encompass the universal within the particular. And so when it came time to organize this programme and to correlate the diseperate views of our four, other guests, I invited Wally McLean to be our narrator and to tell me how, in his view, one can best obtain an idea of North."