Mike,
Believe me, I was spell bound when I read it. Since reading it I have
poured that story into the ear of anyone who would listen. In fact I held a
group spellbound with it at a recent V.I.P. birthday party. So it well may
become an urban legend.
If you haven't already written some fiction you are missing your
calling. Congratulations on a masterpiece. Bob Smith
----- Original Message -----
From: "M. G. Devour" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: CS>The Last Great Race
> Bob Smith wrote:
> > Some time back there was an account posted of a group of British
> > mountain climbers being caught in a storm while climbing Mt. Everest,
> > One of them was critically ill with a high fever. One of the group took
> > a flashlight battery and a silver medallion he was wearing and fashioned
> > a crude generator. He knew it was working when he saw bubbles forming,
> > At the time I read it, I understood it to be even before the 20's It
> > didn't say if the sick one survived.
>
> Oh LORDY!!! I can't stop laughing!
>
> Thank you for remembering that, Bob. However, that was a small piece of
> ***FICTION*** written by *ME* to illustrate a point.
>
> God, I *hope* that little snippet never makes it to the status of an
> urban legend! It would be the sort of thing that would hurt rather than
> help the cause of CS. <sigh>
>
> Also, note that the story is set in the near future, rather than
> distant past.
>
> If, however, somebody does know of such a tale that is real, I'd love
> to hear about it...
>
> To wit:
>
> ------- Forwarded message (slightly edited from the original) -------
>
> Date forwarded: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 08:09:57 -0700
> From: "M. G. Devour" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Date sent: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:11:04 -5
> Subject: Re: CS protocol
>
> Reid wrote:
>
> > Also if you want to get even simpler on Becks tape he uses
> > "one" 9v battery. I don't think he was using distilled because it
> > started to produce a white smoke as soon as he put the rods in the
> > water.
>
> Sounds like a great "field expedient" setup. Hmmm...
>
> From _Miracle_in_the_Heights_, an as yet unwritten novel by your
> esteemed moderator. <GRIN> ...
>
> The fine silver medallion he wore at his neck was the answer. He had
> received the award from His Majesty for acts of heroism on the ill-
> fated expedition to Nepal in ought-six, and carried it in memory of the
> friends he lost there.
>
> Were there anyone to see, they would have noticed a moist glint at the
> edge of his eye as Commodore Peter Emtrey melted snow in his coffee mug
> over the diminutive camp stove.
>
> He then removed the battery from the GPS receiver, and the antenna
> clipleads from Martin's portable shortwave transceiver. He used one of
> the wires to connect the metal cup to the negative pole of the battery.
> The other, he attached between the positive terminal and the chain on
> which the medal hung.
>
> He dissolved two grains of salt from his mess kit into the warm water,
> and held the medallion by its chain in the middle of the cup. In the
> waning light filtering through the tent he could see streams of tiny
> bubbles rising to the surface, a sure sign that nearly invisible
> particles of silver were filling the liquid with their healing potency.
>
> The minutes dragged by, the wind and snow rocking the tent, perched on
> the precarious rock shelf.
>
> Martin groaned as the Commodore raised him up to receive the
> preparation. "Here now, chap. Drink this. It'll help."
>
> Slowly, he administered sips of the life-saving colloid of silver to
> his fever-ridden comrade.
>
> Hours passed, the only sound the wind and quiet breathing. Emtrey twice
> repeated the treatment during the night, working by the dim light of
> the tiny solid state lamp.
>
> "Not this time," he thought, his eyes looking far beyond the walls of
> the tent and the grey light of dawn, his thoughts returning to the
> heights of Nepal. "No, not this time."
>
> --
>
> <VERY BIG GRIN>
>
> Be well, all.
>
> Mike D.
>
> [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian]
> [[email protected] ]
> [Speaking only for myself... ]
>
>
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