Time on Ice: A Winter Voyage to Antarctica.

Three-year voyage with overwintering on Palmer Peninsula 1989-92.

p. 197: The past few months I’ve been reading to Rolf in the evenings. He got tired of hearing me erupt in laughter while reading Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Galapogos, so I started over, aloud. Vonnegut’s commentaries are a great kickoff for discussion, especially since he often fuels us with a laugh.

p. 198, notes wedding gift of Encyclopedia Britannica as argument adjudicator. They were also given some books in Florida “To Northern Lights to be red library” is funny. I had to start by explaining the series of jokes that evolved from “what’s black and white and red all over.”