Some links about people:
John McPhee finally let someone profile him, and it wasn't published in The New Yorker. (Has McPhee ever written about being a fire lookout? I don't think so, yet it feels like it'd be a natural subject for him.)
"Ten years as a lookout on a fire tower requires a particular aptitude for idleness."
That Awkward Moment When Your Twin Brother Is a U.S. Citizen at Birth, But You’re Not. (via)
---L.
Subject quote from "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d," Walt Whitman.
John McPhee finally let someone profile him, and it wasn't published in The New Yorker. (Has McPhee ever written about being a fire lookout? I don't think so, yet it feels like it'd be a natural subject for him.)
"Ten years as a lookout on a fire tower requires a particular aptitude for idleness."
That Awkward Moment When Your Twin Brother Is a U.S. Citizen at Birth, But You’re Not. (via)
---L.
Subject quote from "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d," Walt Whitman.