The Legend of Sleepy Hollow-Post #3

We meet Ichabod!  And boy oh boy it is one of my favorite descriptions ever!  Can you believe the imagery Irving brings to mind when first introducing us to Ichabod's physical character?  I LOVE it!  Paragraph eight is one of my favorites!  Don't you love this part:  "To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn field."

A 'scarecrow eloped from a cornfield'…I LOVE it!  Visions like this are one reason I LOVE this book!  So perfectly described so that our minds just totally see Ichabod!

And then…oh my heck…I laughed out loud at this one the first time I read it…in the paragraph that begins, "When school hours were over…" which is maybe paragraph 11…as the description of Ichabod's personality and habits goes forth…this phrase, "...for he was a huge feeder, and, though lank, had the dilating powers of an anaconda;"  I LOVE it!  Do you ever read an author and just think, "How in the world does he think of this stuff?"  That's Washington Irving to me!  I LOVE that!  Again, humorous and very visual!

And now that we've met Ichabod and begun to have a vision of him…('the dilating powers of an anaconda'…hilarious!)…read on!  I'm loving it!