Inspiring Thought For The Day

 

THE BLUE SALT ROAD

 

WELL, THIS ONE WAS QUITE REMARKABLE.

 

The author of this one is Joanne Harris and the International Standard Book Number is 978-473-22221-2.

Hank, my counterpart operative working out of Lake St. Clair, recommended this one to me because he considered it a LAFF RIOT.  

I want you ladies to stop RIGHT THERE and try to picture a Muskellunge, LAUGHING. I know!!!

But I see what was so funny.  The book is a fulsome, Celtic-accented tale about a woman who enslaves a selkie using THE USUAL METHOD IN THOSE PARTS: you hide his sealskin from him so he can't go home to the water.

THIS BLAME FOOL IDEA IS WHAT OPENS THE WAY TO SUCCESSFUL RECRUITING OF A CERTAIN TYPE OF HUMAN.

CLIFFIE'S NOTES ON THE SELKIE MYTH:

>> Of course they have the whole recruitment thing BASS ACKWARDS.  They do not enslave the people of the sea, 'kay? WE DRAW THEM INTO THE SEA LIKE LEMMINGS.

 >> In their monkeycentric thinking, they DARE TO DREAM that once up on dry land, the selkie forgets what he's there for.  From there, I gather, he will dumbly do WHATEVER HE'S TOLD by his captor.  Get married.  Have kids.  Kill his friends and relatives and eat them with a smile.  Naked Ape hijinks like that.

>> Only the merest accident or slyest machinations will BREAK THE SPELL and free the selkie.

>> It really is ENOUGH TO MAKE A MUSKIE ROLL OVER LAUGHING.

>> HOW CAN THEY SEE IT THIS WAY, YOU ASK?  They do have one thing that we will never have ladies:  EGOS THE SIZE OF THE RIDICULOUS BUILDINGS THEY LIVE IN.  They really think they have that kind of control over us, on account of they're SMART and we're STUPID.

>> And this is RIGHT WHERE I WANT YOU TO DRILL, INTO THE VERY CENTER OF YOUR RECRUIT SO HE WILL NEVER WANT TO GET AWAY.

>> We'll be discussing this in MUCH CLEARER DETAIL at the next chapter meetings, after all of you have read this HILARIOUS guide to what makes the Naked APES tick.

I Could Answer This Question For You...