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Wed 15 Jan, 2003 05:28 pm
Assuming that you have endless food and drink on our fictional Desert Island, what 3 items would you choose to have with you?
My wfe, my computer w/satellite hookup, neverending battery supply!
torches meaning a british flashlight or a real torch. Actually, it is funny either way!
Thank you Bill - you saw the duality for both possibilities - not bad perception for an American.
I also know what goolies are!
Goolies? Oh yes, they're the relatives of Ghosties!
Missus, of course, a swiss armyknife, and a pan!
OK folks, let's hear those suggestions of yours.
(assuming that people aren't items, and anything that helps me get off the island is precluded, including any sort of communications device...)
Piano
An enormous anthology of poetry in the English language
A lifetime supply of toilet paper
A lifetime supply of matches. a pot, an ax.
Ok, change wifey to a book that never ends
My cellphone, my wardrobe, and my grooming kit (including toilet paper)
Now some of you are starting to be realistic and not idealistic!
Hell, if I was on a deserted island, I wouldn't want to get off. Just give me sustanance-as I listed before. Could change batteries to solar power as Bib suggested!
I thought about tools and sources of fire, but I figured not having to spend any time in pursuit of food or water would leave me plenty of time to find ways of making the other two. Trying to figure out how to make, say, a rock adz might be a very useful diversion for a while...
My laptop computer with internet access.
A good radio with numerous batteries available.
The Norton Shakespeare to read...and read...and read!
Ishi, an amerind (native american) found in the mountains of california at the turn of the 20th century, the last man of his tribe, and having no previous contact with "modern civilization" was brought to live in the museum of a major california university where he had access to all things modern, remarked that the only real advantage to modern civilization he could denote was matches.
See that? Ishi and I are on the same wavelenth.
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