Toad on the Road: A Cautionary Tale

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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?" Rpt. in Lee, Michelle (2009). Poetry Criticism (subscription required). Vol. 95. Detroit: Gale. Literature Resource Center. Web. 13 Apr. 2015. ISBN 9781414451848. 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, 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!).

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On the Road has been an influence on various poets, writers, actors and musicians, including Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Jim Morrison, Jerry Garcia, David Bowie and Hunter S. Thompson. Concern for the toad population at Oaken Grove led to the creation of the first toad tunnels in the UK[3], an idea that had already found use in mainland Europe for over a decade previously. Two tunnels were constructed just below the surface of the road with an extensive fence erected to funnel the toads to the entrances. Although it is stated[ 3] that many toads passed through the tunnels in the year they were created, little subsequent information was gathered on how successful, or not, they were.

ALL-TIME 100 Novels: The Complete List". TIME Magazine. 2005. Archived from the original on October 19, 2005. a b James Mottram (12 September 2008). "The long and grinding story of On The Road". The Independent. Archived from the original on June 1, 2009. After seeing Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), Coppola appointed Salles to direct the movie. [35] In preparation for the film, Salles traveled the United States, tracing Kerouac's journey and filming a documentary on the search for On the Road. [36] Sam Riley starred as Sal Paradise. Garrett Hedlund portrayed Dean Moriarty. [36] Kristen Stewart played Mary Lou. [37] Kirsten Dunst portrayed Camille. [38] The film screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012 [39] and was nominated for the Palme d'Or. [40]

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With bouncy call-and-response text and vivid illustrations, this lively picture book from author-illustrator Stephen Shaskan is sure to have readers giggling along with Toad's silly antics. A perfect read-aloud! Who s that coming down the road? Oh yikes! Oh yikes! It s a bear on a bike. a b Holmes, John Clellon (November 19, 1952). "This is the Beat Generation". The New York Times Sunday Magazine. 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.Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. 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!' John Leland (2007). Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think). New York: Viking. p. 17.

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We have been consistently collecting data on toad numbers since 1999 (see figure 4, below). Volunteers very efficiently report their numbers to the author of this paper each evening, enabling daily and seasonal totals to be determined. This data shows that the size of the seasonal toad migration has varied five-fold in the last 24 years (1999 to 2022). The lowest total (2,088 toads) was recorded in 2014, while the highest total (10,501) was recorded in 2010. Mrs Toad [You see, hey? You become a big a-star like me. We make big moneys together. You make Mama rich. You are important person. You are famous. You are a star!] 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.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. The Toad never answered a word, or budged from his seat in the road; so they went to see what was the matter with him. They found him in a sort of a trance, a happy smile on his face, his eyes still fixed on the dusty wake of their destroyer. At intervals he was still heard to murmur 'Poop-poop!' Let's sit quiet a bit, Toady!' said the Rat, throwing himself into an easy chair, while the Mole took another by the side of him and made some civil remark about Toad's 'delightful residence.' a b Kemp, Stuart (6 May 2010). "Kristen Stewart goes On the Road". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 2010-05-13 . Retrieved 2010-05-07.

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Bignell, Paul (29 July 2007). " On the Road (uncensored). Discovered: Kerouac "cuts" ". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007 . Retrieved 2007-08-02. Finest house on the whole river,' cried Toad boisterously. 'Or anywhere else, for that matter,' he could not help adding.Kerouac even delves into the classical music genre briefly, having Sal attend a performance of Beethoven's sole opera, Fidelio (1805), in Central City, Colorado, as performed by "stars of the Metropolitan" who are visiting the area for the summer (Pt. 1, Ch. 9). The idea for On the Road, Kerouac's second novel, was formed during the late 1940s, in a series of notebooks and then typed out, on a continuous reel of paper, during three weeks in April 1951. It was published by Viking Press in 1957. How many people love toads? The correct answer is ‘more than you might think’. The evidence comes from the many hundreds of ‘Toads-on-Roads’ schemes dotted around the UK. In densely populated and affluent countries such as the UK, road traffic is quite possibly the biggest threat faced by toads and other amphibians. In April and May the lake is filled with toad tadpoles. Unlike frog tadpoles, they often form large aggregations. Once metamorphosis is complete – it takes about eight weeks on average – tiny toads, called toadlets, leave the lake. Instinctively they know which direction to head in: it is north to the woods – and the dangers of the road. The first draft of what was to become the published novel was written in three weeks in April 1951, while Kerouac lived with Joan Haverty, his second wife, at 454 West 20th Street in New York City's Manhattan. The manuscript was typed on what he called "the scroll"—a continuous, 120-foot (37m) scroll of tracing paper sheets that he cut to size and taped together. [7] The roll was typed single-spaced, without margins or paragraph breaks. In the following years, Kerouac continued to revise this manuscript, deleting some sections (including some sexual depictions deemed pornographic in the 1950s) and adding smaller literary passages. [8] Kerouac wrote a number of inserts intended for On the Road between 1951 and 1952, before eventually omitting them from the manuscript and using them to form the basis of another work, Visions of Cody (1951–1952). [9] On the Road was championed within Viking Press by Malcolm Cowley and was published by Viking in 1957, based on revisions of the 1951 manuscript. [10] Besides differences in formatting, the published novel was shorter than the original scroll manuscript and used pseudonyms for all of the major characters.