Bob, Thanks for a beautifully written post of a past trip. We always enjoy your trip journals (even those of fictitious origin <grin>) and would hope that some day you would considering compiling your stories into a published form. ...Edwin > From: "Bob Carter" <revkayak_at_mtaonline.net> > > I have decided for personal reason to begin to chronicle some of my past > trips.This trip took place in 1988. > > In 1879 explorer John Muir traveled to Alaska to study Glaciers. In the > village of Wrangel he met a Presbyterian Missionary by the name of S. Hall ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Edwin Johnson ....... elj_at_shreve.net ~ ~ http://www.shreve.net/~elj ~ ~ ~ ~ "Once you have flown, you will walk the ~ ~ earth with your eyes turned skyward, ~ ~ for there you have been, there you long ~ ~ to return." -- da Vinci ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Thanks for the literary correction. Bob -----Original Message----- From: JHYoung000_at_aol.com <JHYoung000_at_aol.com> To: revkayak_at_mtaonline.net <revkayak_at_mtaonline.net> Date: Friday, August 23, 2002 5:50 AM Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Glacier Bay, Alaska (long post) What a charming "travelogue"! Thanks so much for posting it--I've been to southeast Alaska also, though not to Glacier Bay, and your tale recalled many wonderful memories for me. Let me make a gentle correction though. When Hemingway used the phrase about the bell tolling, he was quoting from John Donne, a 17th century British poet: "any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee." In Donne's world view, all of us should be stirred by the loss or misfortune of any of us, so the bell's tolling, meaning someone's death, is for all of us. SO, it's maybe more appropriate than you knew, as you applied it to the "tolling" of the bell buoy. Thanks again for a good read! --JJ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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