Gregory's ServerWe've been reading Edward Abbey's The Journey Home, there's a whole passage in it that is a log of his working in a fire watch tower. It's funny to see his thoughts being so similar to that of long distance sailors.
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@dbb seems like the ideal place to find the focus for that. He says that he carries with him all the classic lit books that he would otherwise never read. @dbb he mentions that lots of the fire lookouts are being replaced by airplanes, for which one hour of operation costs 3 days' worth of putting someone there, but is more modern. Maybe now all the fire watchers are jobless, as he seems to think was going to happen in the book.  |
@neauoire I wonder how many writers took that gig (fire watch)?
Kerouac writes about it in at least two of his books.