TheBanyanTree: rowing

[Sachet]

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On 9/7/2012 1:36 PM, Teague, Julie Anna wrote:
> Quoting Laura Hicks <wolfljsh at gmail.com>:
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>> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Teague, Julie Anna
>> <jateague at indiana.edu>wrote:
>>
>>> Dave, as I mentioned, a very experienced rower, said that he, too, 
>>> had to
>>> stay pretty focused and then quoted Stephen Crane, of the men rowing 
>>> in the
>>> open boat out on the ocean, "None of them knew the color of the 
>>> sky."  In
>>> that moment, the words were so evocative.
>>
>>
>> So I guess he's forgiven for not getting the Monty Python reference?
>
> ha ha ha!  As long as a person can quote someone other than Homer 
> Simpson, I can hang with them as a running buddy.  You've got to be 
> able to talk about something on a ten mile run.  My best running 
> buddy, Tanya, is out of commission with a stress fracture in her 
> foot.  And she's a wonderful running buddy, but God love her, she 
> reads mostly trashy fiction, has dubious taste in movies, and doesn't 
> go in much for current events or politics as discussion topics.  But 
> she's a woman, so, you know, we can talk about our periods for ten 
> miles.  KIDDING.  Tanya and I have made it through twenty six miles 
> together, and all the training miles getting to that point, without 
> having read a single book in common (until she coerced me into reading 
> "Outlander", which we, in the end, agreed to disagree on). We manage a 
> comfortable silence at times.  With running buddy Dave, on the other 
> hand, we usually run out of miles before we run out of things to 
> discuss. So the miles speed by, and that's a good thing.  Dave has 
> bred an entire family of over-achievers who would not know a Monty 
> Python if it bit them on the arse, so to speak, but who are all now at 
> Harvard or they are twelve years old and on the verge of becoming 
> world-renowned violin virtuosos.
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> And speaking of spewing literary quotes, my darling younger son--the 
> one who nearly flunked out of high school because he didn't do any of 
> the homework whatsoever (he didn't need to, he figured, since he 
> already knew the material) and who is now in community college trying 
> to prove that he is as smart as he actually is--quoted Sophocles to me 
> the other day.  "An unexamined life is not worth living," he tells me, 
> "Discuss."  Funny kid, that one.  He got an A+ on his first philosophy 
> test.  If college can manage to keep him entertained, he might deign 
> to do the work.
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