[Rhodes22-list] Bill's Bahamas Adventure -- a tough act to follow

[Robert Skinner]

elle wrote:
> Bill,
>   As I watched the number of pages left decrease
> as I read your last installment, I found myself
> reading more & more slowly so the adventure would
> never end. Thank you for taking the time to put
> that all together for us.
>   We still have too much winter left to spend w/o
> a travelogue....what shall we do? What SHALL we do??
>   elle
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Bill, thank you for a fine and evocative tale!  I doubt
that we will see its equal for some time.

elle: (our own quondam e. e. cummings)

As I was advised in my college years, concerning 
amatory adventures: "When it's getting late, 
prevaricate," not that I ever followed that 
pernicious suggestion, of course.

(Main Entry: pre·var·i·cate
Pronunciation: pri-'var-&-"kAt
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -cat·ed; -cat·ing
Etymology: Latin praevaricatus, past participle of 
praevaricari to act in collusion, literally, to 
straddle, from prae- + varicare to straddle, from 
varus bowlegged
: to deviate from the truth : EQUIVOCATE
synonym see LIE)

Perhaps we can go from the well-finished truth 
to the unvarnished, but well-polished and time
honored tall tale?
-- 
Robert Skinner               "Squirrel Haven"
9 Gateway Commons, Gorham, Maine   04038-1331