Randall Williams

Write down about all of it. Yeah. You have to, I mean, in that era, you really have to sort through what material there is to get glimpses. Of the natural world. And obviously there's a literature from the earlier colonial period of, you know, English gentlemen going up to Savannah. Yeah, but a lot of it's indecipherable, though. Yeah, I mean, it doesn't read... The William Bartram kind of stuff.

It reads as very sort of, I don't know, pre-modern. Not in the technical sense, but pre-modern. I mean, it's very antiquarian.

It reads as very sort of, I don't know, pre-modern. Not in the technical sense, but pre-modern. I mean, it's very antiquarian.

It reads as very sort of, I don't know, pre-modern. Not in the technical sense, but pre-modern. I mean, it's very antiquarian.

Yeah, you read... That's true. You read, like, the account of Cabeza de Vaca. It feels like it's like an extended acid trip, you know, like you're kind of like, what? Really? There's no way. I mean, that's kind of like it doesn't paint a vivid picture. And I think that's something you're right. Like something happened linguistically.

Yeah, you read... That's true. You read, like, the account of Cabeza de Vaca. It feels like it's like an extended acid trip, you know, like you're kind of like, what? Really? There's no way. I mean, that's kind of like it doesn't paint a vivid picture. And I think that's something you're right. Like something happened linguistically.

Yeah, you read... That's true. You read, like, the account of Cabeza de Vaca. It feels like it's like an extended acid trip, you know, like you're kind of like, what? Really? There's no way. I mean, that's kind of like it doesn't paint a vivid picture. And I think that's something you're right. Like something happened linguistically.

Where we go over this hump and all of a sudden you can understand what people are talking about.

Where we go over this hump and all of a sudden you can understand what people are talking about.

Where we go over this hump and all of a sudden you can understand what people are talking about.

I wasn't really aware of that, man. And you turned me on to that to be suspicious. In studying writing, in studying fiction writing, we always learned about the unreliable narrator. as a fictional device.

I wasn't really aware of that, man. And you turned me on to that to be suspicious. In studying writing, in studying fiction writing, we always learned about the unreliable narrator. as a fictional device.

I wasn't really aware of that, man. And you turned me on to that to be suspicious. In studying writing, in studying fiction writing, we always learned about the unreliable narrator. as a fictional device.

Right. Like in a, you're reading a novel and the reader sort of becomes aware, like that part of the thing is not to trust the narrator, which is common in movies and other stuff. Right. Like it's built, it's a built intention. I never thought of it in, in historical journals, never thought of it.

Right. Like in a, you're reading a novel and the reader sort of becomes aware, like that part of the thing is not to trust the narrator, which is common in movies and other stuff. Right. Like it's built, it's a built intention. I never thought of it in, in historical journals, never thought of it.

Right. Like in a, you're reading a novel and the reader sort of becomes aware, like that part of the thing is not to trust the narrator, which is common in movies and other stuff. Right. Like it's built, it's a built intention. I never thought of it in, in historical journals, never thought of it.

And I had read tough trip through paradise and I'd emailed you or ran into you, whatever it was and asked you about tough trip through paradise. I remember you said, um, Basically, you know, be careful. He plays a little. I think you say he gets a little fast and loose and some of the things don't quite add up. And I just read it like gospel.

And I had read tough trip through paradise and I'd emailed you or ran into you, whatever it was and asked you about tough trip through paradise. I remember you said, um, Basically, you know, be careful. He plays a little. I think you say he gets a little fast and loose and some of the things don't quite add up. And I just read it like gospel.

And I had read tough trip through paradise and I'd emailed you or ran into you, whatever it was and asked you about tough trip through paradise. I remember you said, um, Basically, you know, be careful. He plays a little. I think you say he gets a little fast and loose and some of the things don't quite add up. And I just read it like gospel.

We quote him and have been warned about him, but we quote him.