Dan Crowe asked re DonO's midge:
>How do you tie something that small, and how
do you fish it?
Norman Maclean did not I think say this, but (perhaps quoting
his Calvinist father), he might well have: One fishes it in exactly
the way one approaches fly-fishing in general, thankful to have been
reminded that all such fishing constitutes after all an act of faith
and aspires to a state of Grace. Samuel Johnson once said of
Shakespeare's plays, "No one but a blodkhead ever wrote for any
reason other than money." To which I respond, "That may be
so, but that's no explanation for why he thought he had to make his
plays _that_ good." The same applies here, leading us to say to
ourselves, in all humility: "Thanks Don. The world's a better
place for your having been in it."
Dan W
