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01/02/2021 10:11 am
.for a decade or so,I used to "read" a book each day or so.......there was a story about an Inuit warrior who crossed the ocean in a hewn kayak.....this guy eventually got up to no-good,always to the accompaniment of his fabulous OBSIDIAN knife......does any of this ring a bell with any of you?.....the story may have been pure folderol,but I`ve kinda gotten obsessed with nailing down the title...and maybe even revisiting the book itself
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01/02/2021 11:35 am
Interesting John....do you suppose it might`v been the Scotch eggs?
the story I`m referring to, was a work of fiction.... I seem to recall "reading" "Snow Crash" right around the same time....I have searched Snow Crash for any instance of the word "obsidian",but got no positive results
02/02/2021 12:25 am
Was the book Savage Empire?
02/02/2021 12:30 am
or....
Where We Found a Whale by Brian Fagan.
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02/02/2021 12:28 pm
thank you Lloyd......your suggestions are much appreciated.....they also serve to remind me that my communication skills are somewhat lacking 
I just now found what I`d been looking for...this time using only the word "kayak" to search the book (it`s about 200 pages in)
.."Snow Crash".... "a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 1992"
The Inuit I`d remembered was actually an Aleut....and there was NO direct mention of an "Obsidian" knife....not in so many words
here is an excerpt
