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In the New Yorker...
Ellemeno:
I just spent the last few days reading the last twenty or so pages of this thread. I miss reading the New Yorker. I kept not keeping up, and when it became time to renew, I wouldn't let myself. So I enjoyed the Malcolm Gladwell and David Sedaris vicariously through your posts.
I feel kind of pleased, because I had independently observed that articles often start out with a date or time reference. One time it popped out at me, and I watched for it ever since.
Jeff, here's Dexter Filkins:
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on January 23, 2012, 04:08:34 am ---Jeff, here's Dexter Filkins:
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So that's Dexter Filkins! Thanks! :)
Jeff Wrangler:
Over lunch today I enjoyed William Finnegan's article in the January 23 issue about Eric Goode and the plowshare tortoise of Madagascar.
I like tortoises. They look so wise. And they must be the longest-lived fauna on earth. Finnegan mentions a tortoise that Captain Cook gave to the king of Tonga in 1777 that didn't die until 1966, which is 189 years later (and presumably the creature was full grown when Cook gave it to the king).
Incidentally, this article begins, "One smuggler wore a trilby, white with a black band." ;D
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 25, 2012, 02:27:49 pm ---Finnegan mentions a tortoise that Captain Cook gave to the king of Tonga in 1777 that didn't die until 1966, which is 189 years later (and presumably the creature was full grown when Cook gave it to the king).
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Mind-boggling! :o
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 21, 2012, 04:16:47 pm ---I was most intrigued by the 4th article, "Slow and Steady" by William Finnegan. The photo is wonderful...two guys staring at the camera from a grassy perch. Only one of the giuys is a plowshare tortoise!! It begins, "One smuggler wore a trilby, which with a black band..." and then it goes on to describe two other smugglers. So, it breaks the rule by leading with character development.
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Yes, I wrote that already...
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