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Post #190,928 by Ashton 1/20/05 5:32:52 AM Reply	To Build a Fire 99% sure that was also the exact title of a somewhat abbreviated version of a similar mishap, a story which is among my earliest recollections of reading ahead (we never got to it in class, nor several others I thought more memorable than the assigned stuff). Vocabularly was a bit simpler, probably a 5th grade? reader used in 3-4th grade. An early, fortuitous Lesson: Read. Ahead. Screw 'assignments', where feasible - or try to work out a deal with Teach to skip the pabulum. (This was, of course quite prior to my realizing that the central theme of many lives seems to be Ohhh... SHIT! Maybe several times before the final one.)
Post #190,942 by Another Scott 1/20/05 8:42:30 AM Reply	The earlier version was simpler. Maybe that's it? [link\|http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Writings/Uncollected/tobuildafire.html\|Here]: This is the first, more juvenile version of a story later published for an adult audience in The Century Magazine in August 1908. TBaF really struck a cord with me. I've only read it 3-4 times but in the last ~ 30 years I can still remember quite a bit of it word for word. Cheers, Scott.
Post #190,985 by tuberculosis 1/20/05 12:48:30 PM Reply	Sure is great to have free literature in the public domain Too bad there won't ever be any more of it. "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
Post #191,049 by Ashton 1/21/05 4:51:28 AM Reply	Probably it's as close as I can remember Assuming this title was \ufffd Jack London (Wolf House is just a few miles from here) - I have to suppose that the story couldn't have been Bowdlerized by a textbook pub. But the little grey cells fail me re the exact ending, with the fistful of matches. deja Brrrrr

Not One Dxxn Dime Day - (tuberculosis) - (31) - Jan. 18, 2005, 02:29:39 PM EST

Ooh, great idea - (bepatient) - (29) - Jan. 18, 2005, 05:04:17 PM EST

Oooh - cliche-time? OK:____Commerce R'US -NT - (Ashton) - Jan. 18, 2005, 05:21:35 PM EST

Perhaps the working stiffs should be put on notice . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Jan. 18, 2005, 05:32:29 PM EST

Four years ago... - (inthane-chan) - (26) - Jan. 18, 2005, 05:45:53 PM EST

And who is supposed to get this "message" - (bepatient) - (25) - Jan. 18, 2005, 06:15:29 PM EST

Granted: there is NO 'ideal painless protest' devisable - (Ashton) - Jan. 18, 2005, 06:26:18 PM EST

I think a week-long general strike might do the job - (inthane-chan) - (23) - Jan. 18, 2005, 06:28:04 PM EST

One Week - - (Ashton) - (22) - Jan. 18, 2005, 06:35:50 PM EST

7 weeks didn't cause Chavez to change. - (Another Scott) - (21) - Jan. 18, 2005, 06:52:45 PM EST

Why.. It's.. Reagan VS Air Traffic Controllers deja vu - (Ashton) - (20) - Jan. 18, 2005, 07:34:03 PM EST

Didn't mean to rub you the wrong way, Ash. - (Another Scott) - (19) - Jan. 18, 2005, 09:56:54 PM EST

Not at all - - (Ashton) - (18) - Jan. 18, 2005, 11:18:42 PM EST

Thanks. :-) Old Age is over-rated though. :-( 18 kb .gif - (Another Scott) - (17) - Jan. 18, 2005, 11:50:35 PM EST

think of the bright side - (daemon) - (10) - Jan. 19, 2005, 12:18:52 AM EST

The ice flows do have an appeal... :-) -NT - (Another Scott) - (9) - Jan. 19, 2005, 12:23:42 AM EST

20+knot currents 4 minute survival rate in the water - (daemon) - (8) - Jan. 19, 2005, 08:10:16 PM EST

My luck, it would happen that Jonah 1:17 would be repeated. - (Another Scott) - (7) - Jan. 19, 2005, 08:35:09 PM EST

well they have orcas and belugas - (daemon) - (2) - Jan. 19, 2005, 09:33:32 PM EST

Or there's this - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Jan. 20, 2005, 12:45:02 AM EST

Thanks. - (Another Scott) - Jan. 20, 2005, 08:56:42 AM EST

To Build a Fire - (Ashton) - (3) - Jan. 20, 2005, 05:32:52 AM EST

The earlier version was simpler. Maybe that's it? - (Another Scott) - (2) - Jan. 20, 2005, 08:42:30 AM EST

Sure is great to have free literature in the public domain - (tuberculosis) - Jan. 20, 2005, 12:48:30 PM EST

Probably it's as close as I can remember - (Ashton) - Jan. 21, 2005, 04:51:28 AM EST

Re: Thanks. :-) Old Age is over-rated / underappreciated? - (Ashton) - (5) - Jan. 22, 2005, 11:26:27 PM EST

Thanks. I mean that. :-) - (Another Scott) - (4) - Jan. 23, 2005, 12:45:22 AM EST

Food. - (Ashton) - (3) - Jan. 23, 2005, 03:17:47 AM EST

Few options. - (Another Scott) - (2) - Jan. 23, 2005, 10:30:46 AM EST

"Brain Diet" is missing the latest. - (Andrew Grygus) - Jan. 23, 2005, 02:15:16 PM EST

Accord - (Ashton) - Jan. 24, 2005, 05:25:04 AM EST

Hmm . . forgot all about it and the inauguration too . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Jan. 21, 2005, 05:01:13 AM EST

Possibly.
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