TheBanyanTree: rowing

[Sally Larwood]

Lucky kids is all I have to say. And I bet you have a great time too. 
Unlike your neighbour, Tom Keneally, you take an interesting story and make it interestinger. 

Sal 

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On 11/09/2012, at 7:38, Peter Macinnis <petermacinnis at ozemail.com.au> wrote:

> On 11/09/2012 05:15, Teague, Julie Anna wrote:
>> contrast that with another quote from 'The Open Boat, a story based on
>> crane's true life adventure of surviving a ship wreck in a small dingy
>> out on the ocean, rowing to save their lives for days on end
> 
> One should recall that just after his praise of messing about in boats, the Water Rat suffered a disaster, albeit one not quite in the same range as Crane's.
> 
> I suppose that's one of the keys to good story-yelling: choosing an element and cleaning it up, polishing it, trimming it.  But now I need to stop, because today, I am talking to several hundred children about why history should be about stories, using the tale of Samuel Burt, who asked to be hanged, rather than be transported to Australia.
> 
> Beats the hell out of what I did at their age, which was to memorise lists of rivers crossed and stuff like that.  Imagine Crane's tale, reduced to lists of wave types.  It's hiSTORY, people!
> 
> peter
> 
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