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