<Steve Orrell> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:21:11 +0100, "Mark South"
> <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
> ><Steve Orrell> wrote
> >
> >> I think the original poster can answer his own
> >> question by
re-reading
> >> the book (assuming its Krakauer's, or similar)
> >
> >Off the top of my fragile little brain I can think of 4
> >books written
by
> >people who were in that party (Krakauer, Wethers,
> >Gammelgaard,
Boukreev)
> >and there might easily be more.
> >
> >The ones that I have read are hardly similar. They all
> >blame others. Boukreev basically implies that Krakauer
> >saved his own skin at the expense of everyone else for
> >example.
>
> This is immaterial and supposition.
That's the neatest, sharpest, and most breathtaking
dismissal I've had all week. I'm very, very impressed. Do
you mind if I file it for future use?
> Mark, you've taken my quote out of context.
It is nice to receive recognition for one's skills
> To reiterate, but perhaps state differently, the purpose I
> saw in "re-reading the book" was to reassess the
> descriptive passages in whichever book the original poster
> had been reading in the context of the, broadly speaking,
> similar comments made in here.
Absolutely.
> I was not commenting on any particular recollection of
> events or the people involved, rather what might be read
> of the _conditions_ (should I put that in capitals?) that
> were experienced.
Let me try: CONDITIONS ... hmm, doesn't help.
The conditions experienced and described by the participants
(who were in widely ranging physical conditions) were very
different, and the weather was changing moment by moment.
The books only combine to create a consensus on on fact:
that everyone has an interest in maintaining their version
of the events, and that subjective factors dominate the
overwhelming majority of statements made by all.
But if you can extract a universal agreed description of the
conditions, please do.
--
Mark South: Citizen of the World, Denizen of the Net
<<Tiens! Ce poulet a une grenade!