28 October 2003 21:42

for the kenyonites

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woo hoo! not only does this book have a part featuring some guy from mount vernon, but get a load of this: "Thus an apple tree in bloom was part of the natural process of making fruit at the same time it was a 'living sermon from God'; likewise, a crow wheeling overhead was a type of the black forces waiting to overtake men's souls when they wandered off the Path. The river before you might be that Path, yet a wrong turn on it might land you in Newark, Ohio, a hard-drinking town notorious for gambling and prostitution that Chapman [Johnny Appleseed, if you're nasty] believed offered a literal preview of Hell." -- Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World. i have been there. i know it is so. love, might