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...JOHN STEINBECK TOLD OF A GIANT SEA creature washed ashore in Monterey, California, in the 1940s. Word spread quickly around town. Folks rushed to the shore to examine the fearful monster but found a local scientist had already posted a note on it--"Don't worry about it. It's a basking shark.'' Nothing mysterious. Nothing to get excited about. Once again, science had drained the life and beauty out of nature. Let's leave the deep sea alone and let it retain the one thing that seems to be increasingly rare on this shrinking planet--mystique. RANDY OLSON...
...John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath...
...kindergartners in Lynne Wiswall's class, all Latino, had painted big American flags and attached them to wooden sticks in preparation for Veterans Day. But in her sunny classroom last week, down the road from a migrant camp where Steinbeck set his famous novel, Wiswall sadly put the red-white-and-blue banners aside. Californians had just approved a ballot initiative to deny public education and social services to illegal immigrants. How many of her Spanish-speaking five-year-olds were undocumented? Wiswall was not about to ask. But one thing she had decided: "I can't send these flags...
...Mudslap, but Greta is an alias, and she puts out her zine as she hitches rides in the boxcars of America's railway system. "I don't want anyone to know too much about it -- 'cause if they do, then people will think they're Jack London or Steinbeck. They'll go freight hopping and get their legs cut off. Please don't do it." Greta is not just worried about inspiring imitators. Her underground status also allows her to justify her unconventional publishing practices. "If you're mainstream, you can't steal postage. You can't plagiarize...
...understand what this whole thing is supposed to communicate. The shoe tying is taken further when Gus finds a peice of cardboard in one shoe and an old pack of cigarettes stuffed into the other one. This scene creates the picture of Gus as a version Lenny from John Steinbeck's Of Mice...