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Anna Vinson's avatar

Yep, the Overstory, what a wonderful book! Now, I must read Gravity's Rainbow. Thanks, as ever.

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Jessica Rath's avatar

Please, do! Just remember, the first 30 - 50 pages are confusing, they're like a dream. If you stick with it, let me know what you think!

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rohn bayes's avatar

400 characters / i thought 'there are way more than that - thousands of characters on one page and our eye has to interpret each one' then i realized you were talking about literary characters not individual characters of the alphabet / haha / anyways way to many characters for my brain

i didn't finish overstory either / i left her up in the tree because i didn't want her to come down

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Jessica Rath's avatar

Yes, I was thinking about this double meaning when I was writing. Why are letters of the alphabet also "characters"...

It is sad indeed, but it's the truth. 95 - 98 percent of old growth forest has been destroyed. Tree sitters are remarkable: https://jacobin.com/2021/04/california-redwood-forests-mendocino-cal-fire-tree-sitters-climate-extinction/

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rohn bayes's avatar

funny i just read about a young woman who was up a big redwood for 2 years / can’t remember where it was now / finally the logging company agreed not to cut it and for 200 feet around it

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Jessica Rath's avatar

YES! Julia Butterfly Hill, in Humboldt County, CA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Butterfly_Hill The tree, Luna, still stands, over 1,000 years old. Somebody tried to kill the tree in 2000, but some "tree doctors" made sure the tree would survive.

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