Subject: Twin Peaks considered as a papyrus boat
From: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
Date: 1991-07-30, 04:39
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In one of his books, Thor Heyerdahl describes how to make a papyrus boat.
You start by taking a few papyrus stalks (these are several yards long
and inches thick) and firmly binding them together at one end.  You then
take more stalks and force their ends one at a time into the bundle.  As
you proceed, the bundle grows longer and thicker.

The problem is that there is no way to make it thinner again.  The only
way to stop, when the bundle is the length you want, is to just chop
through the ragged end to square it off.

Twin Peaks.

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Richard Kennaway          SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
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