Carrying Burdens

[David KUIJT <kuijt@umiacs.umd.edu>]

Poster: David KUIJT <kuijt@umiacs.umd.edu>


In the current thread of burden-carrying, I have an anecdote I hope will
amuse.

In the year when I was King, O these many years ago, I travelled to a
far-south event.  At this event there was fighting, and so it came to pass
that I was my armour/shield/weapons to the tourney field when a Lady
spotted me and hurried over.  She was quite disturbed that the King would
be carrying a heavy physical burden like that; it apparently seemed quite
improper to her.  She offered (quite insistently) to carry my armour
herself. 

She was very kind, and very courteous, but I had to gently refuse her
offer. Totally aside from issues of whether it would have been right for
me to let her carry my armour (me being King, and she being a Lady), it
would have been extremely silly, for I was a foot taller than this Lady,
and she was of slight build.  I suspect I could more easily have carried
her and the armour both together, than she could have carried my armour. 

I'm not sure if there is a moral here; just a story.

Dafydd

taking a break from "The T-tree: an Object-Oriented Data-Parallel Spatial
Index on Polygonal Data" 


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