A Thankful Countdown: Day 3
I’ve decided to count down to Thinksgiving, and take a moment each day to think about things I’m thankful for. Number Three: Books.
I’ve decided to count down to Thinksgiving, and take a moment each day to think about things I’m thankful for. Number Three: Books.
I want to go to the park, said the Boy.
Tell your Dad, and I’ll bet he’ll drive you to the park, said the Car.
And the Boy told his Dad, who loaded him in the Car with a nice picnic lunch, and drove them to the park.
We were deep in the jungles of Sulamalasy when I found the body.
Jules Verne predicted the future, from submersible ships to space flight, including the concept of mutually assured destruction as a deterrent to war, high-speed trains, calculators, a worldwide “telegraphic” communications network that sounds suspiciously like the Internet, and the idea that governments would execute criminals by electric charge. That was a hell of a leap in 1863.
Here Kipling sits down with, talks to, asks impertinant questions of, and fawns over Mark Twain – who puts up with him, and admits that he has actually heard of him. Here, on the other side of the world, Kipling visits a Burmese town called Moulmein and sees a beautiful pagoda. I’m reading this and humming “Road to Mandalay” and realizing he hadn’t written it yet.