The misunderstanding with the tourists at the end is competing with the sense of abject defeat at the end of The Great Pearl (Steinbeck)
for my favourite moment in any book ever
( lemony, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:42, archived)

Surely
it's where Bentley/Spielberg got the character of Quint in Jaws from?
( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:51, archived)

Hahaha... I see what you mean
I can't say I read him that way though...
( lemony, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:57, archived)

Right. Now back to On the Road
interspersed with reading about the 1961 Luptse expedition

night all
( lemony, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:59, archived)

Night

( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 1:03, archived)