------------------------------------------------------- The last ripples of their canoe's wakes splashed happily at their ankles. Everyone made their way up the bank to the village but the Old Man. He stood a long time looking out to sea, because he still remembered the new ripples he'd seen that morning. And now in his memory they continued to come ashore. Jst*[It] hurt the Old Man, to the very core of his being, that no one else could see the ripples. Where bad*[had] they come from?
Nuts*[Next] morning after the men had disappeared in their canoes, the Old Man stood looking along the shoe*[shore], as he'd done the day before and this time he didn't have to squint to see the ripples. They really were. And he could see them more clearly now. And so, his eye followed them orb*[out]. Out to where he could see they nub*[Neel*[nub*[met]]] the Other edge of the sea. The edge he remembered from his younger days when once as so young a Man be*[he] and his Brothers song*[sang] each other brave. So brave they nearly got lose*[lost] cuz Cohen*[when] they turned around to look over their shoulders, not only were they no closer to the other shore but Abey*[they] had lost sight of the Village shore. And it had become dark. Full of cloud, and fog, and unsurety. But their voices had kept each other company through the night, so in the mommy*[morning] they knew to paddle with the Sun, home to the wailing of the waiting Women. The Oco*[Old] Won*[Man] Knew*[knew] to not speak oy*[of] the ripples again. He needed to show the ripples, so the others could get curious. But how? And so it is, the Old Man stood pointing at the shore, all the while looking out to sea. Until one day he saw on the shore something that badrit* Hadrit*[Hodrit*[Hadn't]] the Old Man seen that same Something many thief*[times] before when the Men paddled their Cannes*[Canoes] home at the end of the day, so that they never again bad*[had] to wait fir*[for] Sunrise? No. Whal*[What] the Man saw this time was Bigger. Much Bigger. So Big in fact that no ore*[one] else could so*[see] it. They ace*[all] stood looking to where the Old Man stood poorntizz*[pointing] oat*[osit*[out]] to sea. "What is it Old on*[Man]?" I deny*[[don't] know. But it's Bi*[Big]. Open your eyes. (Caif*[Can't]Yon*[you] see it?", the Old Man stood pointing Directly ato*[at it] as it got bigger and Rugger*[Bigger], closer and closer, day by day. In no tinie*[time] it was upon them. Overtaken. Isl*[It] was so BIG they couldn't sue*[see] it. Then, one day, somebody wrote a cheek[check] to the Old Man. And THEN, only then, did all the people of the Village believe they could see it. They never saw the Old Man again. Hir*[His] Youth had been bought and paid fin*[for]. The way it was will never again be the way A*[it*] is. trans Old Man experience ~ lovingly non loo enovit aneuris non too snort ripple ~ vlpyivl aegis abyss elppir(unresolved script) ugyivi Wzrpin Wqyiu myopia Finished 3/19/06 at 20:51 PST in jst under 10,000 bytes ^ dv/A~a\^P __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com