The turtle chapter 3 is rather weak. I like for example the beginning for
chapter 5 where Steinbeck describes the land owners in Oklahoma:"Some of the
owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them
were angry because they hated to be cruel, and some of them were cold because
they had long ago found that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.
And all of them were caught in something larger than themselves."Or a bit later
where he describes the banks that many of the land owners work for:"The bank is
something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the
bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I
tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it."-J.
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<[email protected]> Date: 10/26/19 17:54 (GMT+01:00) To: 'The Friday
Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <[email protected]> Subject: Re:
[FRIAM] John Steinbeck in the 21st century Steinbeckers – Does anybody else
remember that one-page chapter about the tortoise on 66 in Grapes of Wrath? It
is such a metaphor for everything. Nick Nicholas S. ThompsonEmeritus
Professor of Psychology and BiologyClark
Universityhttp://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steven A SmithSent: Friday,
October 25, 2019 7:00 PMTo: [email protected]: Re: [FRIAM] John
Steinbeck in the 21st century On 10/25/19 1:21 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:I've
read Cannery Row and liked it. I like the books from Steinbeck in general. What
is the name of the biography from the Doc? "Beyond the Outer Shores" ? Is it
recommendable? Very...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/401670.Beyond_the_Outer_Shores -Jochen
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Steven A Smith <[email protected]> Date: 10/25/19 16:53 (GMT+01:00) To:
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...On a recent pleasure/work trip I *re*visited Monterrey CA and Cannery Row
which lead me to *re*read Steinbeck's Cannery Row which lead me to read
something of a biography of the Doc character in his novel (and the movie) for
whom the prototype was Ed Ricketts...Beyond the Outer Shores was written
roughly 15 years ago, recounting Ricketts' life and career. I knew that
Steinbeck was a good friend of Ricketts but I was not aware of how much work
they did together, including a summer of kayaking in the Sea of Cortez which
yielded the data for the book they co-authored by the name "Sea of Cortez". I
was also unaware that Joseph Campbell spent his formative (adult) years in the
company of both of these mens (and more to the point, Ricketts). The author
of this biography credits Ricketts as being highly influential in the work of
both Steinbeck (beyond Cannery Row) and Campbell, and credits him with leading
the transition from traditional biology focused on taxonomic approaches to
identification of collected specimens. Ricketts approached collecting and
identifying (mostly marine) species as well as writing them up in his famous
trilogy on the topic in the context of a newly emergent field of "ecology".
He was simultaneously under-appreciated due to his lack of formal education,
his lack of academic affiliation whilst also being a highly prolific commercial
collector/supplier of specimens to the same community while identifying a huge
number of new species (perhaps only recognizing the subtle differences based on
habitat and foodweb relations) within his purview (the range of the Pacific
coast along the North American coast from Bering Sea to Panama).On 10/23/19
3:39 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:I recently stumbled upon John Steinbeck's classic
novel "The Grapes of Wrath" and wonder if it is similar to the situation today.
You will all know it since it is often read in High Schools, right? (I had to
read Goethe in School. And "Animal Farm" plus "To kill a Mocking Bird" in the
English class). As you know Steinbeck describes how migrants from Oklahoma
called Okies look for a better life in California. They travel along the Route
66, which Steinbeck helped to make popular, passed Albuquerque and Santa Fe,
and drove to the West until they arrived in California where the locals
disliked and rejected them.https://www.nationalgeographic.org/news/grapes-wrath
Today we have migrants from Cuba and Mexico looking for a better life in the US
and refugees from Syria and Afghanistan who cause a lot of trouble in the EU.
Many of these refugees and migrants live in camps, just like the ones Steinbeck
visited.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/feb/02/johnsteinbeck.socialsciences
Steinbeck's novel takes place during the "Dust Bowl". Today the dry regions in
the South suffer from droughts and wild fires caused by Climate Change
worldwide. Everything sounds similar, as if history is repeating itself.
https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-dust-bowl -J.
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