(urth) Hanga Sighting

JBarach at aol.com JBarach at aol.com
Wed Jan 4 14:11:40 PST 2012


Just saw this in the news:
 
_http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/886379-flying-shark-spotted-7-000ft-in-the-sky
-shocks-airline-pilot_ 
(http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/886379-flying-shark-spotted-7-000ft-in-the-sky-shocks-airline-pilot) 
 
Wonder if the pilot had read Gene Wolfe...
 
"‎"He is out there, swimming  beside the plane. I watched him for a minute 
or more, until he disappeared into  a thunderhead."

_http://books.google.com/books?id=L1Rmf8tiwYsC&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=%22The+Tr
ee+Is+My+Hat%22&source=bl&ots=Nc-ZpuLjfz&sig=tgrTE9leEkQqud6bDy-9XC0b31E&hl=
en&sa=X&ei=Ks0ET9awJIWftwfms6TQBg&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=%22The%20Tre
e%20Is%20My%20Hat%22&f=false_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?id=L1Rmf8tiwYsC&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq="The+Tree+Is+My+Hat"&source=bl&ots=Nc-ZpuLjfz&sig=tgrTE
9leEkQqud6bDy-9XC0b31E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ks0ET9awJIWftwfms6TQBg&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBjg
K#v=onepage&q="The%20Tree%20Is%20My%20Hat"&f=false) 
 
Mind you, as soon as I began to  write this, I noticed that the article 
says that these Air Swimmers are a  popular Christmas gift.  And "The Tree Is 
My Hat" has to do with a  character named "Mary Christmas."  And ... naw.  
Wolfe can't have had  this tradition in mind, can he?
 
John
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