[lit-ideas] Re: Melbourne, Tristam Shandy and Custer at Gettysburg
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 13:55:15 -0800
On Feb 3, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Simon Ward wrote:
And if the link - which looks more than cumbersome - doesn't work out
just head to:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk
stick in Melbourne and see for yourself.
See, that's exactly where I was. You hit the zoom out button and you
get a little bit more, but not quite enough. So you hit it again and
you get a full screen of Blackburn to Northhampton. All I wanted was
what was just off the edge of the other map. No doubt I'm just not
understanding how the site is supposed to work, but I don't have this
problem with most U.S. sites.
As for Custer at Gettysburg, well yes he was there. And then he had a
whole career, including a court martial for running off to see his sick
wife when he should have been chasing around Nebraska, before he
arrived at Little Big Horn. Somewhere in the archives of Phil-Lit you
may find a post I wrote when I had finished several books about Custer.
I was trying to understand why he split his forces at Little Big Horn.
The answer is partly that charging in had worked really well for him
at Gettysburg and partly that he was really frustrated by his inability
to catch up with pony-mounted Native Americans, who weren't hampered by
a baggage train loaded with oats, needed as feed for horses that didn't
do well on mere plains grasses.
David Ritchie,
paying the piper in
Portland, Oregon
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