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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna
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To: James F. Hopkins who wrote (19868)6/6/1998 11:48:00 PM
From: Marty  Read Replies (1) of 94695
 
I was moved by the book Perfect Storm as well. My own close calls were not in the water but I've felt that same heart stopping terror while trying desperately to survive, just in other circumstances. I hear that the eskimos say that everybody has that day when they meet the polar bear at the top of the world.

If you care for this kind of writing, as I do, you will like "Into Thin Air" by John Krakaur (sp?). Another one about surviving at sea that is very good is called "Adrift" and I can't remember the author just now... Another one is "Midnight Express"

They make the point that when men are in really extreme circumstances, their strength, cunning, intelligence, everything they've got, either rises to its highest capability or sinks to absolute lowest animal instincts to survive.... it is almost like an animal can smell danger.

The guy in "Adrift", for example, lashed pencils together to try to get a reading from the sun so that he could try to figure out his location.
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