Short Story 42: An Article About Hunting

Jeff Wilson · 01 Aug 2012, 02:37 · from 2012-July.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:37:11 -0500
Subject: (urth) Short Story 42: An Article About Hunting
In-Reply-To: <1343769142.40023.YahooMailClassic at web160706.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
References: <1343769142.40023.YahooMailClassic at web160706.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <50189657.3070708 at clueland.com>

On 7/31/2012 4:12 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:

> ?Salt water from an oil drilling operation had killed fifty or a hundred
> acres of timber here, and his back was protected by a huge dead oak. ? I
> raised my camera for a picture, and as I did so I could see from the
> expression of despair that crossed that coal black face that he believed
> it to be a gun.His look of relief when the camera made only a harmless
> click was quite comic. ?

> This ecological bent reveals itself in several other works ? the primary
> mystery here is ?what?s the deal with that bear??He seems to mistake a
> camera for a gun in horror and when the narrator is surprised by the
> bear in his little hiding place he at first believes the face is human,
> but distorted.

Could it be an ape?



-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net