The book (not screen use) is positively reviewed.

I think that art requires a sense of safety in play, which is typically limited in a fascist structure.

Yes!!

A hill on which I will die: Calvin and Hobbes is one of the great pieces of 20th-century American literature in no small part because it was never turned into anything aside from a comic strip. Leave it be.

Thanks! 😌

Anyway, with that book idea, you can take it or leave it. That is a pun 🙃🌳

Honestly I should get back into using Goodreads or StoryGraph. I like sharing and seeing reading suggestions but I’m not doing it systematically now, so sometimes like this I’ll tangentially offer a novel suggestion, haha.

My favorite quotation from that novel, The Overstory: “There is no knowing for a fact. The only dependable things are humility and looking.”

Incidentally, the last “long” book that I read was The Overstory, a novel using a connected-stories-that-merge format, by Richard Powers. It is very tree-centered. Very interesting if you like long novels.

Wow, thanks for sharing about the story!

I also enjoyed the various strings, and the flute, as well as the piano especially at 13:35 and 15:25. Overall a cool collage. Will listen to Side 2 soon.

Not sure what is happening to the tree starting at 7:37, but it sounds a bit ominous. Maybe just aging. Very nice.