Another foot find...

With Halloween approaching, you might find this experience interesting:  a boy was fishing in a lake and hooked but then lost what appeared to be a human foot. An eight-hour search revealed the big one that got away was only a Halloween prop. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/11/severed-foot-found-in-lak_n_924430.html

Stranger than fiction

Lord Byron gets credit for the origin of this concept ("'Tis strange — but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction."), but I like one of Mark Twain’s rewordings better (“Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.”).

Stranger than fiction

The comment "I do wonder what lies at the bottom of the ocean!" makes me think of Jules Verne. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea is an example of how he anticipated truths stranger than fiction in many of his novels.

David Simmons

Stranger than fiction

A woman snagged a body part while fishing in a lake this summer and returned the prosthetic leg to its owner by means of some clever sleuthing. http://ksax.com/article/stories/s2252212.shtml

Reminded of how truth can be stranger than fiction, I sent copies of The Sum of Her Parts to both players in this dramatic reconnection. How many others have wondered about reeling in a “dead body” when they have something really heavy on the line?

David Simmons