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Post #190,942
by Another Scott
1/20/05 8:42:30 AM
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New 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
Picture of tuberculosis
1/20/05 12:48:30 PM
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New 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
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New 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

If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, maybe that's where your kid should be practicing the trumpet.
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