gardner memory

[john wells]

Crowell,Sean [CIS] wrote:
> 
> >
> >It may've been a parable of reading and writing, but I heard long ago,
> >that was an Eskimo trick used to hunt wolves. The blades were frozen in
> >the ground or in ice, and then soaked with blood and meat scraps. The
> >wolf will not feel the razor very well, if it is shapened finely enough,
> >he'll also be licking over ice, and the fact that the cut is in his
> >mouth will make it almost impossible to heal, and the hunter will just
> >follow him until he's weakened enough to be safely taken.
> >
> ><snip>
> >I too, would be interested in this story of Gardner's if it's ever been
> >published.
> >
>         Yes, it's a bit of "ancient Eskimo wisdom" as Zappa would
> say...If you want to see the knife in the ice tale fictionalized
> check out Mordechai Richler's "Solomon Gursky Was Here"...
> a worthy read in any case...
> 
> >                                               Sean
> >

Sean,

Thanks for jogging my memory. I completed a B.A. in "North American
Studies" from McGill U. ('76) so I should've known that myself. I was
thinking I heard that Eskimo bit from a class on Indigenous People of
North America which focused on the Inuit population of Canada, but I
may've also read it in Richler.

"It's not the age, it's the milage..."
John