Freezing to Death
When you freeze to death you do not sit there thinking about how you are freezing to death. Instead you start to get drowsy and dizzy, kind of like when you're drunk, or so I've heard. Anyway, you start to get really sleepy and you know you should keep walking, but then you start to not care at all and then you think you'll lie down for just a minute and take a nap and then you do and voila! You freeze to death! At least that's how it happened in this short story that I can't remember the title of by Jack London. It's a really good short story. You should read it JonAthan, because I said. There's a guy and his spit freezes before it hits the ground. There's also a dog and the dog lives, which I always thought appropriate.
Another really really good short story is "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane. Seriously, it is one of the most awesomest short stories ever. And if you read the accompanying article by Crane it becomes even better. I recommend it to the entire population of the world . . . along with "The Most Dangerous Game" and "Lonegan and the Ants" (at least that's what I think it's called) and J.D. Salinger's short story collection. Enough recommendations . . .
I have to give blood in a little bit. I don't want to. They destroy my little arteries with their fierce pokery. I want to go home and hide in a corner, but I'm not going to. I'm going to give blood. I always wonder who, exactly, is getting my blood and why and so from now on I've decided to imagine people like Traever, who are always very-nearly-dying getting my blood. That makes it more entertaining, because while I'm sitting in a weirdo lawn chair with tubes running out of me, taking my blood away, I can think of funny, very-nearly-dying stories for my imaginary dumkoff. Otherwise it's very boring and oftentimes my arm goes numb.
Another really really good short story is "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane. Seriously, it is one of the most awesomest short stories ever. And if you read the accompanying article by Crane it becomes even better. I recommend it to the entire population of the world . . . along with "The Most Dangerous Game" and "Lonegan and the Ants" (at least that's what I think it's called) and J.D. Salinger's short story collection. Enough recommendations . . .
I have to give blood in a little bit. I don't want to. They destroy my little arteries with their fierce pokery. I want to go home and hide in a corner, but I'm not going to. I'm going to give blood. I always wonder who, exactly, is getting my blood and why and so from now on I've decided to imagine people like Traever, who are always very-nearly-dying getting my blood. That makes it more entertaining, because while I'm sitting in a weirdo lawn chair with tubes running out of me, taking my blood away, I can think of funny, very-nearly-dying stories for my imaginary dumkoff. Otherwise it's very boring and oftentimes my arm goes numb.
posted by Booder at 10:12 AM
7 Comments:
i think i've read that story for some reason at some point in my life. i also keep wanting to read some louis l'amour because there are cowboys but have never gotten around to it. have you ever read that one where that dude is freezing to death so he cuts his horse open and gets inside to stay warm? gross. but hey, you gotta do what you gotta do. i better he never got those stains out though.
"the most dangerous game" was an awesome short story. and i think it's "leiningen vs the ants" also another great short story. good times in mr c's english class.
Leiningen vs The Ants:
http://www.bygosh.com/Features/012003/leiningenvsants.htm
The Most Dangerous Game:
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/danger.html
thanks scott! and thank you mr. c indeed!
traever, i don't know if i've read that particular story, but i've seen star wars and they do that in the second movie . . . the real second movie. by the way, if you want to borrow a louis l'amour book you can because my dad has every single one ever printed. he's a sackett.
what's a sackett?
i went to some couples house last night to look at some records and they had a thousand or so but i found a couple beatles albums and like 10 elvis records and some bill monroe, bob willis, duke ellington, count bassie, louis armstrong, nat king cole, and some other rocking crap. i don't have room for all my records in the living room anymore now.
you bought the records? do you ever listen to them? and a sackett isn't really a something. Sacketts are people. A group of down home Kentucky boys or whatever that went out west and became cowboys. One Sackett dug a bullett out of the back of his head, saved the ranch and got the girl all in one day.
yeah, i did that once.
yes, i do listen to my records and i also put them on cd. i just had to buy a third cd case because my second one is running out of room. some of them i just buy because they are famous/worth some money, but not much. those beatle and elvis ones are though.
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