10 Years After

Friday night I watched Four Feathers and loved it. Saturday I scoured the theaters in Knoxville to catch Possession again but it had ceased showing in the few (read two) theatres it was playing in. Also over the weekend, I continued to listen to the audiobook for The Compleat Angler.There was a neat passage about water-snakes:

And let me tell you, that as there be water and land frogs, so there be land and water snakes. Concerning which take this observation, that the land-snake breeds and hatches her eggs, which become young snakes, in some old dunghill, or a like hot place: but the water-snake, which is not venomous, and as I have been assured by a great observer of such secrets, does not hatch, but breed her young alive, which she does not then forsake, but bides with them, and in case of danger will take them all into her mouth and swim away from any apprehended danger, and then let them out again when she thinks all danger to be past: these be accidents that we Anglers sometimes see, and often talk of.