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How to build a boat?

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This is a chapter from my eleventh book called Quotation Marks Sparks.

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"Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island, what book would I bring: 'How to Build a Boat.'" - Steven Wright
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I was scrolling through quotes from a Google search for deep quotes and deep into that scrolling and reading quotes, I saw a link for a list of funny quotes that are even safe for work. I told myself, that is what I need, a good laugh. And from that list, I had to dig deep before I chose this quote that made me smile really hard. It was SOL rather than LOL, IYNWIM. (Smile out loud; Save our laughs; Save our lives;) I guess Steven is [W]right. I then thought to myself it would have been great if Noah wrote a book on building boats except he built an ark. What is an ark? What makes it an ark? This has really been a quotation sp-ark as the name of this book goes. We would not try to build a plane because that would be too difficult but a plane would work also. Building a boat is not rocket science but a rocket would also get the job done. The easiest thing to build might be a canoe.

They say that laughter is the best medicine. They also say that if we do not laugh we will cry. We do not have to be serious about life all the time. Only the times when we are stranded on a desert island. The funny thing is that now that I know the answer to the question I would not know how I would have responded had I not known. What book would I bring to a desert island? Does a macbook count? I guess it would have to have the emergency SOS satellite feature like the iphone and apple watch has. As we are talking about desert island, this book was almost called "Messages in a bottle". I imagined this collection of quotes being placed in a bottle to be found by others. I even thought about combining the words book and bottle to read, "Messages in a bookle".

So how do you build a boat? Is it anything like building a book? Because I should know a thing or two about building a book. Let me think of how both are similar. I would need a plan and some materials. I would need a process, tools and know-how. Can I build a boat out of books? Maybe if I took enough books or a large enough book that would work. Has anyone built a boat out of books? That would certainly bring to life the idea that books take you on a journey. Books can even save your life. Maybe instead of just taking a book, why not take an inflatable dinghy hidden in the book. I love how my friend Chatty describes what I have built so far in this chapter: This whole train of thought is like a philosophical raft held together with cleverness, wit, and just enough absurdity to float. I would like to add just in case: The man who has never built a book should not stop the man who is building a book. I just know that Chatty wants to respond with: Whatever floats your book!
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