[lit-ideas] Re: Fish and Geary's Question
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:55:43 -0800
On Feb 17, 2006, at 6:16 AM, Ursula Stange wrote:
THE FISH
I had about as much chance, Mother,
as the carp who thrashed
in your bathtub on Friday,
The tale I remember is, I believe (I can't find out copy and the house
experts are not available) Barbara Cohen, "The Carp in the Bathtub."
It goes: kids decide that this year's carp is loveable and so move it
to a neighbor's bathtub. Father figures this out and the fish gets the
chop (as it were!) but kind old Dad buys the animal-loving kids a cat
to make up for the loss. Keeping Passover fish in the bathtub was
evidently a widespread practice.
Mike's question: I attended two high schools, one all boys, the other
co-ed. I preferred the latter to the former, but in the all boys
school my out-of-class hours were filled with training for the Munich
Olympics--which I didn't reach, thank goodness--and homework, so there
wasn't much time for "I wonder if my social life is up to par," and
angst about not having dates. Which is not the same as saying I wasn't
intensely curious about girls; they were just absent from my planet,
alien beings with bras and hockey sticks, spotted in passing trains and
at the other end of buses. At my second high school--Atlantic College
(which Judy knows)--I took up hockey.
David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon
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