… it’s time for the Hump Day 4, this week with the Deserted Island theme!
(1) If you were stranded on a deserted island, which would you take – tunes or reading material? Explain.
We’ll leave aside the obvious issue of how you’d listen to tunes on a place with no electricity or batteries. Even with that, gotta be books. I’d go nuts without books. I carry books in my brief case, I have them in my desk, I usually have books both upstairs and downstairs that I’m reading, I have books in my car (in case I’m somewhere with no books), I often carry a book in my pocket …
Yeah, it would have to be books.
(2) If you were stranded on a deserted island, which 2 people would you choose to be stranded with? Explain.
We’ll disregard that I wouldn’t want anyone I love (or even like) to be stranded on a deserted island, even with me, and interpret this in the spirit by which it’s intended.
Margie, obviously, would have to be one of them. I would hate to be away from her, and, everything else (my deep abiding love, for example) aside, if anyone could make something palatable to eat out of grubs and leaves, it would be her.
I can’t get over the “wouldn’t want her stranded” thang for Katherine, though. She’d be better off being cared for by the various people we’ve arranged to care for her in case Something Happens.
I can’t think of who else I’d choose. Someone clever, a good conversationalist, mellow, physically fit, and with survival training, I’d think. Hard to say who, though. If it were someone I have to name, possibly Dave S. would fit those requirements, sorta.
(3) If you were stranded on a deserted island with someone you absolutely & passionately hate, would you kill that person knowing that no one else will ever know the truth? Explain.
If I killed them, it would not be because I would never be discovered.
But I don’t think I would, unless I had to out of self defense.
Unless I didn’t have any books. In which case, as noted above, I’d go crazy, and all bets would be off.
(4) If you were stranded on a deserted island with another girl & guy, would you have a 3-some?
I suppose it’s possible, though, The Blue Lagoon aside, the aphrodisiacal qualities of desert island living are, I suspect, greatly exaggerated. Over a long period of time, though, the need for physical and emotional comforting and companionship in such a situation would be profound. Especially if I didn’t have any books. It’s hard to say.
dave, thanks for the comment and i’m looking forward to read your sat-8 posting 🙂 have a great day there …
oh, btw. your blog rules. i’m jealous 🙂
Thanks! I enjoyed yours, too, and put it on the list for my next “Gotta Update My Link List” re-evaluation.
So the real question is – If Dave knew that by killing a person he was stranded on a deserted island with, he would ensure that the books from the library of Alexandria would arrive on the next tide (and he had no other books), would be do it? Hypothetical questions rock!
It depends … would they be books in English translation?
As I recall, you had a few classes in the “classical” languages, did you not? I know your latin is much better than mine.
Not up to reading the Library of Alexandria (most of which was Greek, anyway). Hell, not enough to reading anything with any reliability. Just enough to give convincing things initials in Beyond Balderdash.