Toad on the Road: A Cautionary Tale

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Glorious, stirring sight!' murmured Toad, never offering to move. 'The poetry of motion! The REAL way to travel! The ONLY way to travel! Here to-day—in next week to-morrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped—always somebody else's horizon! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!' Adults undergo a spawning migration each spring, requiring them to travel from their terrestrial environment – they spend most of each year in woods, meadows and even gardens – to a pond or lake to breed. That return journey often involves crossing a road and therein lies the problem. Amphibians generally move slowly and their road sense is non-existent. The inevitable outcome is that many die on the roads, run over by traffic as they travel to their spawning pond or while returning from it. Between the towns of Henley-on-Thames and Marlow, in southern England, a large common toad population lives in an area known as Oaken Grove. On the Road" is a song from Thumbelina. It is sung by Mrs. Toad and the Singers de España (and eventually, Thumbelina) as the former tries convincing the latter to marry her eldest, most desirous son, Grundel, instead of Cornelius. Ottburg, F.G.W.A. & van der Grift, E.A. Effectiveness of road mitigation for common toads ( Bufo bufo) in The Netherlands. Front. Ecol. and Evol. 7,

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Adult toads actually begin their seasonal breeding migrations in the preceding autumn, but cease moving in winter when it is cold, before restarting their migration as the weather warms. Toads are essentially nocturnal animals, and hence they do not begin appearing at the barrier until dusk, which in early February can be as early as 5pm. If the weather at that time is cold – below about 7°C – the toads stop moving. But if the weather is mild (>7°C), and especially if it is also raining, a lot of toads can be on the move. Knowing this, it is possible to have plenty of volunteers present when conditions suggest that a lot of toads will be arriving at the barrier. Because of the objections of my early publishers I was not allowed to use the same personae names in each work. [16] Real-life person This former dive has been renovated and and resurrected as an excellent restaurant and pub that is kitted-out to watch the game with your friends.

Mild, damp nights are reasonably unusual in February and March, so there are relatively few busy nights each season. On many nights not a single toad is collected, it being just too cold for an ectothermic (cold-blooded) animal to move. Then, on just a few nights each year, huge numbers can be seen (see figure 2 and 3, below). For example, on the busiest night in 2019, 20 volunteers carried 1,754 toads across the road. On two nights in the last 20 years that number has exceeded 2,000. In most years over 50% of all the toads are collected on just four or five evenings. It takes quite a few hours and many volunteers to collect so many toads. There's Toad Hall,' said the Rat; 'and that creek on the left, where the notice-board says, "Private. No landing allowed," leads to his boat-house, where we'll leave the boat. The stables are over there to the right. That's the banqueting-hall you're looking at now—very old, that is. Toad is rather rich, you know, and this is really one of the nicest houses in these parts, though we never admit as much to Toad.'

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I don't know that I think so VERY much of that little song, Rat,' observed the Mole cautiously. He was no poet himself and didn't care who knew it; and he had a candid nature.Anctil, Gabriel (5 September 2007). "Le Devoir: 50 years of On The Road—Kerouac wanted to write in French". Le Devoir (in French). Quebec, Canada . Retrieved 2010-12-13. Viking Press released a slightly edited version of the original manuscript, titled On the Road: The Original Scroll (August 16, 2007), corresponding with the 50th anniversary of original publication. This version has been transcribed and edited by English academic and novelist Howard Cunnell. As well as containing material that was excised from the original draft, due to its explicit nature, the scroll version also uses the real names of the protagonists, so Dean Moriarty becomes Neal Cassady and Carlo Marx becomes Allen Ginsberg, etc. [11] Rather dancey song performance by Mrs Toad and her Singers de Espana troupe as an introduction for Thumbelina into their life. I love it because of the lyrics and great onscreen action. Characters: Thumbelina | Prince Cornelius | Jacquimo | Grundel | Berkeley Beetle | Li'l Bee, Gnatty, & Baby Bug | Ms. Fieldmouse | Mother | Hero | Mrs. Toad | Mr. Mole | King Colbert | Queen Tabitha | Buzzbee | Mozo Toad | Gringo Toad At the heart of Madingley is a beautiful stately home with two lakes, providing a clue to the often asked question: "why did the toad cross the road?"

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a b Carden, Mary Pannicia (2009). Hilary Holladay and Robert Holton (ed.). " 'Adventures in Auto-Eroticism': Economies of Traveling Masculinity in On the Road and The First Third". What's Your Road, Man?. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press: 169–185. The review from Time exhibited a similar sentiment. "The post-World War II generation—beat or beatific—has not found symbolic spokesmen with anywhere near the talents of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, or Nathanael West. In this novel, talented Author Kerouac, 35, does not join that literary league, either, but at least suggests that his generation is not silent. With his barbaric yawp of a book, Kerouac commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean." [21] It considers the book partly a travel book and partly a collection of journal jottings. While Kerouac sees his characters as "mad to live ... desirous of everything at the same time," the reviewer likens them to cases of "psychosis that is a variety of Ganser Syndrome" who "aren't really mad—they only seem to be." [21] Critical study [ edit ] The Rat saw what was passing in his mind, and wavered. He hated disappointing people, and he was fond of the Mole, and would do almost anything to oblige him. Toad was watching both of them closely.Thomas Pynchon (13 June 2012). Slow Learner. Penguin Publishing Group. p.3. ISBN 978-1-101-59461-2. Rpt. in Lee, Michelle (2009). Poetry Criticism (subscription required). Vol. 95. Detroit: Gale. Literature Resource Center. Web. 13 Apr. 2015. ISBN 9781414451848.

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In this context the Henley Toad Patrol is an example of citizen science at its very best. A group of more than 50 volunteers has successfully maintained this large toad population for decades. Without them it is highly likely that this very vulnerable population would have been lost due to unsustainable mortality from the road. Our Wine Pod is our unique tasting room on our estate. It was designed to bring nature into the structure. Because of this, when you are enjoying a glass of elegant... a b Holmes, John Clellon (November 19, 1952). "This is the Beat Generation". The New York Times Sunday Magazine.

Why, certainly,' said the good-natured Rat, jumping to his feet and dismissing poetry from his mind for the day. 'Get the boat out, and we'll paddle up there at once. It's never the wrong time to call on Toad. Early or late he's always the same fellow. Always good-tempered, always glad to see you, always sorry when you go!' My father became my main assistant and moral support. (He regards ‘toading’ as his Lent penance, but it does have the advantage that he can carry on eating sweets guilt free - he would otherwise feel he should give them up for Lent!). At first, in 1988, I simply moved animals to the verge that I spotted in my headlights. I feel that we have a duty of care towards our wildlife and it seemed most uncaring that no one was doing anything to attempt to reduce the huge numbers of casualties occurring so predictably here each spring. On the Road influenced an entire generation of musicians, poets, and writers including Allen Ginsberg. Because of Ginsberg's friendship with Kerouac, Ginsberg was written into the novel through the character Carlo Marx. Ginsberg recalled that he was attracted to the beat generation, and Kerouac, because the beats valued "detachment from the existing society," while at the same time calling for an immediate release from a culture in which the most "freely" accessible items—bodies and ideas—seemed restricted. Ginsberg incorporated a sense of freedom of prose and style into his poetry as a result of the influence of Kerouac. [29] I DON'T talk about my river,' replied the patient Rat. 'You KNOW I don't, Toad. But I THINK about it,' he added pathetically, in a lower tone: 'I think about it—all the time!'