<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>So cool!<br><br>~Witz</div><div><br>On Jan 4, 2012, at 2:11 PM, <a href="mailto:JBarach@aol.com">JBarach@aol.com</a> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.17107" name="GENERATOR">
<font id="role_document" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2">
<div>Just saw this in the news:</div>
<div> </div>
<div><a href="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</a></div>
<div> </div>
<div>Wonder if the pilot had read Gene Wolfe...</div>
<div> </div>
<div>"<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">"He is out there, swimming
beside the plane. I watched him for a minute or more, until he disappeared into
a thunderhead."<br><br><a onmousedown="UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "vAQFIGl0-AQFqG1ORDvORLJujwjARvwyvggZK4ylvBdWozQ", event, bagof({}));" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=L1Rmf8tiwYsC&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=%22The+Tree+Is+My+Hat%22&source=bl&ots=Nc-ZpuLjfz&sig=tgrTE9leEkQqud6bDy-9XC0b31E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ks0ET9awJIWftwfms6TQBg&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=%22The%20Tree%20Is%20My%20Hat%22&f=false" target="_blank" rel="nofollow nofollow"><span>http://books.google.com/</span><wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>books?id=L1Rmf8tiwYsC&pg=PA</span><wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>15&lpg=PA15&dq=%22The+Tree</span><wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>+Is+My+Hat%22&source=bl&ot</span><wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>s=Nc-ZpuLjfz&sig=tgrTE9leE</span><wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>kQqud6bDy-9XC0b31E&hl=en&s</span><wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>a=X&ei=Ks0ET9awJIWftwfms6T</span><wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>QBg&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBjgK#v=on</span><wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>epage&q=%22The%20Tree%20Is</span><wbr><span class="word_break"></span>%20My%20Hat%22&f=false</a></span></div>
<div><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"></span> </div>
<div><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">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?</span></div>
<div><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"></span> </div>
<div><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">John</span></div></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Urth Mailing List</span><br><span>To post, write <a href="mailto:urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</a></span><br><span>Subscription/information: <a href="http://www.urth.net">http://www.urth.net</a></span></div></blockquote></body></html>