If you stage a story on a boat it reduces the number of characters and 
puts everyone in their cramped space. Same w/ a plantaion estate, I 
guess. Write enough stories about folks stuck in boats (puking out over 
the stormy Atlantic) or on plantations and there is a transference to 
assume that it is romantic to be stuck on a boat or a plantaion. It is 
hard to write a story about open spaces tho god knows plenty of attempts 
have been made. The characters keep running in and out and the reader 
gets dizzy and like w/ Mark Twain leans towards wanting to shoot some of 
them dead sooner than later.

The William Floyd Mansion, our nearest northern estate here on Lung 
Island, and where John Nichol's (Milagro Beenfield War) family derived 
they recently featured the written works of the family. You could walk 
from room to room and see books that you could not touch, or read. It is 
at a place where nobody would think to go unless they came to visit us, 
again, a place where nobody would think to go.

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