River: eddies in the flow

[mdlbear]

There's nothing quite like the thrill I get when something I've written comes back to me unexpected. It happened this morning when cflute quoted a line I had written in a comment a couple of days ago.

The scenery is beautiful, the rapids terrifying but exhilarating, and the deep water is wonderfully clear.

I was so delighted I called her as soon as I could, ignoring my usual fear (or do I need to demote that to "dislike" now?) of phones. And forgetting about her later post, which flower_cat had picked up on immediately as calling for cheering-up. Did I mention that we tend to notice entirely different things?

I still need to do that more often.

I think the first time something like this happened, it was an offhand remark I'd made in a Usenet post that wound up in somebody's signature quotes file a week or two later. Late 1980's, it would have been.

No, you don't have to ask. Go ahead and quote me.