[Public-List] Great literature....

[John Riley]

Thanks for those cool quotes, Gord. I've already passed on the Ransome
quote twice.

Very nice.

John


Gordon Laco wrote:
> Hello friends - 
>
> I am re-reading Beiser¹s ŒThe Proper Yacht¹.   What a wonderful piece of
> literature it is...
>
> ³Still, my heart always sinks when I see a skinny, humpbacked short-ended
> boat with a grotesquely small sail plan for its size bobbling around in
> rippled water that should hardly disturb a rowboat.  I am unable to clear
> from my mind the feeling that such boats result from the putrefaction of
> more normal ones, the gases of decay having bloated shapely hulls into
> pitiful blobs.²
>
> And...quoting Arthur Ransome in the preface when dealing with the moral
> dilemma of putting money into real estate vs a yacht....
>
> ³Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of
> moving them.  They are definitely inferior things, belonging to the
> vegetable not the animal world, rooted and stationary incapable of gay
> transition... The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content
> thenceforward with a single anchorage.  The desire to build a boat is the
> desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting
> place... When it comes, the desire to build a boat is one of those that
> should not be resisted.  It begins as a little cloud on a serene horizon.
> It ends by covering the whole sky, so that you can think of nothing else.
> You must build a boat to regain your freedom.²
>
> Ah, perfect....
>
>
> Gord #426 SURPRISE (and working on TOUCH WOOD, whose rescue would be simpler
> if I started from scratch on a new boat...)
>
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-- 
John S. Riley
S/V Gaelic Sea
1972 Alberg 30 #521


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