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Sunday, November 1, 2009

smoky mountain birthday


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“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.” --Mark Twain





I fell in love with the wise wisecracks of Mark Twain in college.

About the same time, I had a recurring and memorable dream about a ship. Maybe I'll write about it sometime. Since then, I've been intrigued by this idea of depth sounding--measuring depth-- that captains do. In the 1850s, Samuel Clemens marked a new life when he called out "mark twain," signaling a depth of two.

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