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Christchurch Airport’s efforts to preserve a 200-year-old kōwhai tree, described as the city’s Mona Lisa, are being praised.
Christchurch’s ‘Mona Lisa’ preserved amidst sea of solar panels
Christchurch Airport’s efforts to preserve a 200-year-old kōwhai tree, described as the city’s Mona Lisa, are being praised.
dlvr.it
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The whole chapter is amazing. Works as a standalone short story.
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Nine books

1. Moby Dick (nothing like you think it'd be)

2. Infinite Jest

3. Plant life of Banks Peninsula

4. Something Happened

5. Homage to Catalonia

6. The Other Side of Eden

7. Against the Grain — a Deep History of the Early States

8. 100 Years of Solitude

9. Pathway of the birds
November 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
It continues: " ; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs."

Melville was the best to ever do it.
October 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Unbelievable prose.
May 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
You can't do better than Meliville...
April 24, 2025 at 5:11 AM