the tree is my hat

Joshua A. Solomon · 15 Apr 2003, 09:58 · from urth-v0304.mbox · original

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: "Joshua A. Solomon" <J.A.Solomon at city.ac.uk>
Subject: (urth) the tree is my hat
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:58:57 +0100
Message-ID: <urth-v0304-3182 at digest.urth.net>
X-Urthmirror-Source: http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0304/3182.txt.shtml
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

nice story. new story, no?

s

p

o

i

l

e

r

at first i thought "why does the bookseller have to be black?" it wasn't
until the story was over that i figured out it was because whe wasn't a
(great white) shark. in fact, the only whites in the story are the narrator,
his family and the dwarf with the pasty complexion and the pointy teeth.
certainly the dwarf is part shark and the narrator becomes one. the journal
entries recall "john marsch" whose writing also became less legible as the
story progressed. i suspect the narrator's "attacks" are quite violent.
perhaps he (and the coconut knife) were ultimately responsible for the
carnage at the end. note, at the very end, the shark is seen flying in the
air. perhaps this is just a reflection in the airplane window.

bee

--=20

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