Off topic, but another vessel to gander.
Born into the air travel world, I’ve never really felt the romance of the great ocean liners (or trains, for that matter) but whenever I get near one I’m intrigued by the way they straddle the boundary between being a thing and being a place. (No, this is not a continuation of the Serra thread...)
But could the Thing pick up the QM2 and throw it?
These big ships scare me. It is amazing to me that they can float (and the germ/sickness thing just makes them straight creepy).
But I do like to look at them. Some of them look like floating motels. I find is strange that people would like to vacation in such a confined environment. I'm intrigued that they are large moving living places. It is the "living" and the "big" that distinguish it from plane, train or car. When I go somewhere I like to feel like I am going.
I was thinking the same thing, looking at the pictures: the low ratio of deck space to glassed-in box. It would be like sailing the world in an office building. (I moved this to the end and moved it back so it doesn't look like you're replying to your own comment. The problem with these nested comments is you think you're replying at the end of the thread but you're not.)
...with a completely programmed schedule. Time to eat, time to sleep, this is where you can see the sky, this is where you can walk, this is where you have to shuffleboard...
I have two friends (a couple, both writers) that take destinationless train trips ala amtrak maybe twice a year. When they are feeling they have hit some block - or their day to day lives aren't allowing them time to concentrate - they book a train and take off for a couple of days. They find the environment of the train allows them to write pretty much non-stop.
its dysneyesque, you never have to leave america (1st world) while visiting the (3rd) world.
you can just stand and the railing and wave.
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- selma 4-21-2004 6:47 pm
Born into the air travel world, I’ve never really felt the romance of the great ocean liners (or trains, for that matter) but whenever I get near one I’m intrigued by the way they straddle the boundary between being a thing and being a place. (No, this is not a continuation of the Serra thread...)
- alex 4-22-2004 9:02 pm [add a comment]
But could the Thing pick up the QM2 and throw it?
- tom moody 4-22-2004 9:13 pm [add a comment]
No, but the Hulk could.
- alex 4-22-2004 10:11 pm [add a comment]
same month, exactly 40 years ago. excellent.
- selma 4-22-2004 10:14 pm [add a comment]
These big ships scare me. It is amazing to me that they can float (and the germ/sickness thing just makes them straight creepy).
But I do like to look at them. Some of them look like floating motels. I find is strange that people would like to vacation in such a confined environment. I'm intrigued that they are large moving living places. It is the "living" and the "big" that distinguish it from plane, train or car. When I go somewhere I like to feel like I am going.
- selma 4-22-2004 9:25 pm [add a comment]
I was thinking the same thing, looking at the pictures: the low ratio of deck space to glassed-in box. It would be like sailing the world in an office building. (I moved this to the end and moved it back so it doesn't look like you're replying to your own comment. The problem with these nested comments is you think you're replying at the end of the thread but you're not.)
- tom moody 4-22-2004 9:50 pm [add a comment]
...with a completely programmed schedule. Time to eat, time to sleep, this is where you can see the sky, this is where you can walk, this is where you have to shuffleboard...
- selma 4-22-2004 9:34 pm [add a comment]
I have two friends (a couple, both writers) that take destinationless train trips ala amtrak maybe twice a year. When they are feeling they have hit some block - or their day to day lives aren't allowing them time to concentrate - they book a train and take off for a couple of days. They find the environment of the train allows them to write pretty much non-stop.
- selma 4-22-2004 10:05 pm [add a comment]
its dysneyesque, you never have to leave america (1st world) while visiting the (3rd) world.
- bill 4-23-2004 1:28 am [add a comment]
you can just stand and the railing and wave.
- selma 4-23-2004 1:29 am [add a comment]