Posted by Tim on October 09, 2000 at 17:58:47 from wes75.bham.ac.uk:
In Reply to: Racundra's First Cruise posted by Margie Shaffer on October 08, 2000 at 22:11:12:
The first paragraph of the first chapter of Racundras' First Cruise' reads as follows:
HOUSES are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. They are definitely inferior things, belonging to the vegetable not the animal world, rooted and stationary, incapable of gay transition. I admit, doubtfully, as exceptions, snail-shells and caravans. The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting-place.And if that doesn't inspire you to hunt out and read the whole book, then nothing will!