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Ep 591 - The Orchid Thief, by Susan Orlean

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The Suffering of a Sumpf in Florida

I don't think you could argue that this is not Orlean inserting herself into the story. It's just that so much of the rest of the story is her being like in 1837 the sky got lost in the swamp. In 1885 a sailor on a plume collecting expedition wrote in his diary the place looked wild and lonely about three o'clock it seemed to get on Henry's nerves. And we saw him crying he could not tell us why he was just plain scared. But but also what if plants did cool stuff. Mmm. Yeah. Just talking about the just the swamp just the oppressiveness of a swamp in Florida. Like so much of it is like relaying

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