G'dday. >From: Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [BookCrossing] watery releases >Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 09:09:05 +0000 (GMT) > >In May last year I realised I was 18 months off forty. I decided that if I >wanted to be healthy and fit at forty I needed to start immediately.
<grin> Know the feeling. At forty-six, I'm no thinner than I was when I had a sudden attack of the same thought, but I'm a lot fitter and stronger. > The first day I swam i managed 8 lengths of the pool, stopping after >every one to catch my breath. > On Saturday I will be swimming the Midmar Mile. For non-South Africans, >this is a mile long swim across a dam. 1 mile is 64 of the swimming pool >lengths I managed 8 of 9 months ago! 1 600 metres! And all in under an >hour! Well done! Good work! If course I hate swimming - the only way to get wet is under a shower - but onnyer! > To celebrate my attempt I plan to relase watery themed books over the >next two weeks. And if you like, you can do wet releases of other kinds: take books of any theme, waterproof them with several layers of ziplock bags trapping some air between the layers to establish floaties, and release them in water. Any water. Seas, rivers, public pools, culminating on the day of your swim, releasing one into that dam the instant before you jump in, and have one wrapped and waiting where you come out, to release as soon as you get out. I have a Japanese book somwhere, "Black Rain" which makes the title water-themed (although the book is bomb-themed) - I'll release that into water for you on the day. > Join me in celebrate the wonderfulness of approaching 40, of being able >to be fit and healthy and the joy of reading. As a forty year old, you will need to know about the next milestone age coming up for you, which is forty-two. It goes like this: Douglas Adams wrote a book called "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (which, disappointingly, has had none of its reissues printed with the words "Don't Panic" printed on the back cover in large, comforting letters). In this book, he gave the Answer to the Question, the Great Question, the Question of the Meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything, as 42. Think about it. What happens when you turn 42? You turn into the answer to the Question, the Great Question, the Question of the Meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything. If you are actually the answer to that Question, what are you? Self-evidently, you are Deity, Divinity, a God or Goddess <tick preferred gender>. So for the duration of the year you are 42, you are God/dess. If you are God/dess, you are evidently always right, as gods are never wrong. You are also obviously immortal. I *know* I was immortal for that year and I can prove it to you right now. See, I'm still alive. And if this is book-based philosophy, it's on-topic. I once heard Douglas Adam's explanation, during an interview, of why he chose a number at all, and why he fastened on that particular one. It took most of the time the journalist had to give. I also know how he died, which was a plot-twist straight out of one of his own books, if you ask me. Dying he may have been, but laughing he certainly was! Will give both in a future post if anyone wants to know - they're both book-related, too. Nisaba _________________________________________________________________ Advertisement: Meet Sexy Singles Today @ Lavalife - Click here http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Flavalife9%2Eninemsn%2Ecom%2Eau%2Fclickthru%2Fclickthru%2Eact%3Fid%3Dninemsn%26context%3Dan99%26locale%3Den%5FAU%26a%3D23769&_t=754951090&_r=endtext_lavalife_dec_meet&_m=EXT Have you told a friend today? http://bookcrossing.com/tellafriend Archives and email list settings: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
