At an intersection in Greektown, I stopped for the traffic light as a young lady pushed a stroller carrying a baby girl across on the opposite side. On the side closer to me, a middle-aged lady pushed a wheelchair carrying an elderly lady. As descriptive fiction this is corn ball, but it happened in real life so it's earth ballet.
R. Crumb just published a graphic version of the Book of Genesis. The story of how and why, along with a lengthy excerpt, are in last week's New Yorker. Reading the BoG for the first time in decades, I was reminded of the obvious and almost immediate symbolism in the form of two trees. The Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge and Wisdom. Crumb must have thought for a while, how to depict these trees. I must now look into how literalists imagine these trees.
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thanks for the crumb heads up. I still think about his family from the movie.
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