Talk:The Star Thrower

May 2024 over-quotation tag - discussion

Corrective actions - in progress - please contribute

WORK SCHEDULE

1. create wikiquote page.
2. cleanup the wikiquote page, by including information from the cleanup hints in help-box {{lit-cleanup}}
3. the long quotes from the wikipedia page will be moved over to Wikiquote
4. Add play-button--video-depicting-of-long-spoons-allegory.jpg from folder: Google Drive\rsync-Gdrv\Ref\todos-wiki
5. the summaries of the quotes will be agreed on the wikipedia talk page.
6. Finally, those summaries will be put on the wikipedia page, and so Wikipedia and Wikiquote will not have any duplicated text. (Which they currently have, while work is in progress).

WORK COMPLETED, SO FAR

• Wikiquote page creation: DONE.
• cleanup - DONE: added more quotes, correctly formatted with dates, Cquote template, author, title and page number.
• long quotes - DONE: created on wikiquote.

Summaries of quotes

I have created the wikiquote:The Star Thrower page for the full-length quotes to be moved over to.

Below we can work on summaries of the current quotes on the current page.

The young man and the starfish thrower discuss why he is collecting the starfish

Death is the only successful collector

— Loren Eiseley, p.172 The Star Thrower

Above is just an incomplete starting point (work-in-progress), please help with summaries, thanks! CathMontgomery (talk) 10:43, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Proposal

I propose adding the text below as an example adaptation.

Source

I have this version in printed form, but this version is not posted on the internet anywhere to link to. CathMontgomery (talk) 14:03, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Placement on the [The Star Thrower] page

The story could go at the end of the adaptations section, and if more version are added, then they could be split into a separate page? CathMontgomery (talk) 14:03, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Main page: [The Star Thrower]

Starfish Charity Story

An old man had a habit of early morning walks on the beach. One day, after a storm, he saw a human figure in the distance moving like a dancer. As he came closer he saw that it was a young woman and she was

not dancing but was reaching down to the sand, picking up a starfish and very gently throwing them into the ocean.
"Young lady", he asked, "Why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?"

"The sun is up, and the tide is going out, and if I do not throw them in they will die."

"But young lady, do you not realise that there are miles and miles of beach and starfish all along it? You cannot possibly make a difference."

The young woman listened politely, paused and then bent down, picked up another starfish and threw it into the sea, past the breaking waves,

saying: "It made a difference for that one."

The old man looked at the young woman inquisitively and thought about what she had done. Inspired, he joined her in throwing starfish back into the sea. Soon others joined, and all the starfish were saved.

As adapted

The parable has inspired charitable works in

• humanitarian crisis
• providing a compelling vision
• building records of achievement
• unique charitable approaches, such as the Starfish Charity dinner party campaign

This version of the story was used by the Starfish Charity in 2003.

Ideas to improve this starfish page

redirect pages

• Created link: Parable of the starfish thrower

• Created link: Fable of the starfish

• add a picture of a starfish

• Search with google for more usages of the story in popular culture — Preceding unsigned comment added by CathMontgomery (talk • contribs) 11:58, 29 June 2021 (UTC)