Comments on: What would Sir Ernest do? http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2009/10/14/what-would-sir-ernest-do/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:20:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mulberry http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2009/10/14/what-would-sir-ernest-do/#comment-277 Mulberry Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:14:45 +0000 http://solidgoldcreativity.wordpress.com/?p=2238#comment-277 yay!! are you coming tomorrow for the practice run? yay!! are you coming tomorrow for the practice run?

]]> By: solidgoldcreativity http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2009/10/14/what-would-sir-ernest-do/#comment-276 solidgoldcreativity Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:39:55 +0000 http://solidgoldcreativity.wordpress.com/?p=2238#comment-276 Thanks, darling friend. How wonderful if you read the book too. We'll be able to discuss it over lunch. BTW, registered in the run xx Thanks, darling friend. How wonderful if you read the book too. We’ll be able to discuss it over lunch. BTW, registered in the run xx

]]> By: Mulberry http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2009/10/14/what-would-sir-ernest-do/#comment-274 Mulberry Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:27:28 +0000 http://solidgoldcreativity.wordpress.com/?p=2238#comment-274 Do you know i love your blog. I check your blog once in 2 days to read the next new post. I especially liked this one. I have been wanting to expand my reading and your blog offers me that! This is going to be my next book! Do you know i love your blog. I check your blog once in 2 days to read the next new post. I especially liked this one. I have been wanting to expand my reading and your blog offers me that! This is going to be my next book!

]]> By: andreaskluth http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2009/10/14/what-would-sir-ernest-do/#comment-273 andreaskluth Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:49:59 +0000 http://solidgoldcreativity.wordpress.com/?p=2238#comment-273 Great moment. And then a little boy sees them, black and oily and looking beastly, and he runs away scared. Not having looked in a mirror for two years, they realize what state they're in. Fortunately, the find the Norwegian whaler who recognizes Shackleton and immediately realizes they are heroes. But now... they must rescue the men left on the other side of South Georgia, and then the party marooned on Elephant Island. Great moment. And then a little boy sees them, black and oily and looking beastly, and he runs away scared. Not having looked in a mirror for two years, they realize what state they’re in. Fortunately, the find the Norwegian whaler who recognizes Shackleton and immediately realizes they are heroes.

But now… they must rescue the men left on the other side of South Georgia, and then the party marooned on Elephant Island.

]]> By: solidgoldcreativity http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2009/10/14/what-would-sir-ernest-do/#comment-271 solidgoldcreativity Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:21:25 +0000 http://solidgoldcreativity.wordpress.com/?p=2238#comment-271 Andreas, I was crying in a cafe this morning over it. Shackleton, Worsley and Crean have just heard the steam whistle from the whaling station and know they are about to be safe: "Never had any one of us heard sweeter music ... That whistle told us that men were living near, that ships were ready, and that within a few hours we should be on our way back to Elephant Island to the rescue of the men waiting there ... It was a moment hard to describe. Pain and ache, boat journeys, marches, hunger and fatigue seemed to belong to the limbo of forgotten things, and there remained only the perfect contentment that comes of work accomplished." Andreas, I was crying in a cafe this morning over it. Shackleton, Worsley and Crean have just heard the steam whistle from the whaling station and know they are about to be safe:

“Never had any one of us heard sweeter music … That whistle told us that men were living near, that ships were ready, and that within a few hours we should be on our way back to Elephant Island to the rescue of the men waiting there … It was a moment hard to describe. Pain and ache, boat journeys, marches, hunger and fatigue seemed to belong to the limbo of forgotten things, and there remained only the perfect contentment that comes of work accomplished.”

]]> By: andreaskluth http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2009/10/14/what-would-sir-ernest-do/#comment-270 andreaskluth Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:29:47 +0000 http://solidgoldcreativity.wordpress.com/?p=2238#comment-270 My god, it's a mind meld. Do blog more about him. I can't wait to see your take on it all. Also, pay attention to what happens in the next few years AFTER this stunning success. It's not photogenic, but it happens to a lot of great people after their moment of glory. My god, it’s a mind meld.

Do blog more about him. I can’t wait to see your take on it all.

Also, pay attention to what happens in the next few years AFTER this stunning success. It’s not photogenic, but it happens to a lot of great people after their moment of glory.

]]> By: solidgoldcreativity http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2009/10/14/what-would-sir-ernest-do/#comment-268 solidgoldcreativity Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:45:57 +0000 http://solidgoldcreativity.wordpress.com/?p=2238#comment-268 He he, yes, I know all your deepest secrets ;) Actually, I thought of you and your book at 1:30am this morning (each night I can't put the book down) when I read the following passage about their approach to South Georgia Island: "The chance of surviving the night, with the driving gale and the implacable sea forcing us on to the lee shore, seemed small. I think most of us had a feeling that the end was very near. Just after 6pm, in the dark, as the boat was in the yeasty backwash from the seas ... just when things looked their worst, they changed for the best. I have marveled often at the thin line that divides success from failure and the sudden turn that leads from apparently certain disaster to comparative safety. The wind suddenly shifted, and we were free once more to make an offing." How delectable. 9,000 juicy words about the great man. More than ever, am looking forward to reading your book. Will write more about him and his journey. Just got to get him over the mountain first ... He he, yes, I know all your deepest secrets ;) Actually, I thought of you and your book at 1:30am this morning (each night I can’t put the book down) when I read the following passage about their approach to South Georgia Island:

“The chance of surviving the night, with the driving gale and the implacable sea forcing us on to the lee shore, seemed small. I think most of us had a feeling that the end was very near. Just after 6pm, in the dark, as the boat was in the yeasty backwash from the seas … just when things looked their worst, they changed for the best. I have marveled often at the thin line that divides success from failure and the sudden turn that leads from apparently certain disaster to comparative safety. The wind suddenly shifted, and we were free once more to make an offing.”

How delectable. 9,000 juicy words about the great man. More than ever, am looking forward to reading your book. Will write more about him and his journey. Just got to get him over the mountain first …

]]> By: andreaskluth http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2009/10/14/what-would-sir-ernest-do/#comment-267 andreaskluth Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:03:00 +0000 http://solidgoldcreativity.wordpress.com/?p=2238#comment-267 This is spooky. Have you infiltrated my hard drive? Do you know my deepest secrets? I say that because Shackleton is a major character in my book. I haven't read South but I read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Shackletons-Incredible-Alfred-Lansing/dp/078670621X" rel="nofollow">Lansing's Endurance</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shackleton-Roland-Huntford/dp/0786705442/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255546876&sr=1-2" rel="nofollow">Huntford's "Shackleton"</a>. Unfortunately and ironically, that means I am no longer to say anything at all about Shackleton in fewer than 9,000 words. But if you offer your reactions, I will pounce. This is spooky. Have you infiltrated my hard drive? Do you know my deepest secrets?

I say that because Shackleton is a major character in my book. I haven’t read South but I read Lansing’s Endurance and Huntford’s “Shackleton”.

Unfortunately and ironically, that means I am no longer to say anything at all about Shackleton in fewer than 9,000 words. But if you offer your reactions, I will pounce.

]]> By: solidgoldcreativity http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2009/10/14/what-would-sir-ernest-do/#comment-265 solidgoldcreativity Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:39:41 +0000 http://solidgoldcreativity.wordpress.com/?p=2238#comment-265 Yes, isn't it fantastic that we can't actually define it? Yes, isn’t it fantastic that we can’t actually define it?

]]> By: Phillip S Phogg http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2009/10/14/what-would-sir-ernest-do/#comment-263 Phillip S Phogg Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:59:22 +0000 http://solidgoldcreativity.wordpress.com/?p=2238#comment-263 Like beauty, a great leader is difficult to define, but you know one when you see one. Like beauty, a great leader is difficult to define, but you know one when you see one.

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