Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Miswording from mickey

The term above in Bonnie's caption (quoting me) that the march Chris was leading was a "meaningless exertion" was a mistake on my part. We had both recently read Styron's The Long March, and the gist of it for me was that the person who had commanded a 36-mile hike at a time when there was no war, was simply being cruel to his men, and hence the exertion was "meaningless". 
Chris's 9-mile hike was in no sense meaningless, and he told me he was glad to do it, and especially proud to be leading it. Mea culpa mea culpa
love,
mickey

2 Comments:

Blogger Bonnie said...

Ah, the life of email can be somewhat complicated: the price we pay for electronic closeness and physical separation.

It would do us all good to take a 9-mile hike!

8:21 AM  
Blogger mickey said...

You bet, Bony Bones!

6:16 PM  

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