Reading Notes Two Losses- Part B

 Two Losses

Georgian Folk Tales, by Marjory Wardrop (1894).

I really enjoyed this story, it might even be my favorite for the whole semester. In this tale their is a scholar and a boat captain aboard a vessel. As a big storm approaches the captain barks out orders. The scholar can not understand him and after the storm passes asks the captain if he had ever learned to speak correctly. A few hours later an even stringer storm appears shrining a leak in the boat. The captain goes up to the scholar and ask if he knows how to swim. The scholar says no. The captain informs him that his crew and himself will swim ashore safely and he will die. He states he should have learned to swim instead of being able to speak correctly. 

For me this story depicts todays world of being street smart vs book smart. In my opinion some of the smartest individuals in the world are actually street smart and have very little academic knowledge. Though a good balance of the two will lead one far in life. 


Photo provided by Eastman Museum 

https://www.eastman.org/7th-voyage-sinbad

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