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Its a tongue-in-cheek story of three overworked, partied-out, permanently-hungover English lads George, Harris, and Jerome (and their dog) who decide to rejuvenate themselves by taking a week-long boat trip up the Thames River. Its called, fittingly enough, Three Men in a Boat, and its hilarious. The story is classic its #33 on the Guardians list of The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time and #2 on Esquires list of 50 Funniest Books replica A Lange & Sohne watch Ever. It was written in 1889, and has never been out of print, and is freely available online, courtesy of the Gutenburg Project. The part that I thought of, and later sent to Liz, is from the planning stage of their voyage. Heres an extended excerpt:George said: You know we are on a wrong track altogether. We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we cant do without.George comes out really quite sensible at times. Youd be surprised.

I call that downright wisdom, not merely as regards the present case, but with reference to our trip up the river of life, generally. How many people, on that voyage, load up the boat till it is ever in danger of swamping with a store of foolish things which they think essential to the pleasure and comfort of the trip, but which are really only useless lumber.How they pile the poor little craft mast-high with fine clothes and big houses; with useless replica Chopard watch servants, and a host of swell friends that do not care twopence for them, and that they do not care three hapence for; with expensive entertainments that nobody enjoys, with formalities and fashions, with pretence and ostentation, and with - oh, heaviest, maddest lumber of all! - the dread of what will my neighbour think, with luxuries that only cloy, with pleasures that bore, with empty show that, like the criminals iron crown of yore, makes to bleed and swoon the aching head that wears it!

It is lumber, man - all lumber! Throw it overboard. It makes the boat so heavy to pull, you nearly faint at the oars. It makes it so cumbersome and dangerous to manage, you never know a moments freedom from anxiety and care, never gain a moments replica Concord watch rest for dreamy laziness - no time to watch the windy shadows skimming lightly oer the shallows, or the glittering sunbeams flitting in and out among the ripples, or the great trees by the margin looking down at their own image, or the woods all green and golden, or the lilies white and yellow, or the sombre-waving rushes, or the sedges, or the orchis, or the blue forget-me-nots.