"J & D Moe" wrote in message
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"Wayne Knight" wrote in message
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On May 8, 1:36 am, "J & D Moe" wrote:

,picked
up a copy of John Gierach's "Trout Bum" about a month ago (I know it's
not
that old, but still..., I'm fairly young).

Trout Bum has been "re-published" as a 20 year anniversary *special
edition*. So much for not being 'that' old.


Compared to some, if not most, of the works posted here by Wolgang and
others over the years, a 20 year old book seems rather "young" to me.

Go easy on Wayne......he hasn't borne this mortal coils as long as some of
us have (and if you're nice to him he can teach you wonderful things about
mishing in Fishigan).

I've thought about this a lot in the past few years. The nature of time
(even assuming that it is something more than yet another tedious example of
reification) is a slippery thing. When I first met Huckleberry Finn as a
mere slip of a lad (me, not hi........um......well, never mind) he occupied
a place in history roughly contemporary with the Romans and the dinosaurs.
Imagine my surprise on doing the arithmetic one day (many years later) and
discovering that Halley's comet had long since completed its latest (at that
time) outward journey after his daddy's death and was well on its way back
on the day that mother Siebeneich's youngest whelp first bayed at the moon!


Wolfgang
y'all don't worry about it......i probably don't know what it means either.