From - Tue Jul 30 13:54:31 1996 Received: from VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (vms.dc.lsoft.com [206.241.12.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id NAA16155 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 13:00:19 -0400 Message-Id: <199607301700.NAA16155@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (206.241.12.4) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <14.B9F455FE@VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM>; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 11:35:52 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 11:10:42 -0500 Reply-To: Scott Brickner Sender: Lojban list X-UIDL: 838749504.039 From: Scott Brickner Subject: Re: may the wind be always at your back X-To: David A Johnston X-cc: Lojban Mailing list To: John Cowan In-Reply-To: (Your message of Fri, 26 Jul 1996 22:57:02 PDT.) Status: U X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 682 David A Johnston writes: > To be perfectly honest, I don't think this saying has much to do with >sailing. Yes, it may have started there, but it wouldn't have gained such >wide usage if it didn't appeal to the human spirit. I think that it >caught on because of the idea of the thing. With the wind at your back >it's easier going in almost any circumstances. This is common sense. Actually, I thought about it a little more and it occurred to me that the wish for a tailwind is of most benefit to a military archer. He gets better range on his flights while the enemy faces a headwind. This seems more likely than a nautical origin, now that I reconsider.