TFv05 CH 00 Intros (annotated)

Annotations for the "intros" of Redwood.

## Page 7

***What you don't yet know are the stakes of this struggle***

from This is water, an essay by David Foster Wallace. Full
quote:

Probably the most dangerous thing about an academic
education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to
over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply
paying attention to what's going on in front of me. Instead of paying attention
to what's going on inside of me. As I'm sure you guys know by now, it is
extremely difficult to stay alert and attentive instead of getting hypnotized
by the constant monologue inside your head. What you don't yet know are the
stakes of this struggle. In the twenty years since my own graduation, I have
come gradually to understand these stakes, and to see that the liberal arts
cliche about "teaching you how to think" was actually shorthand for a
very deep and important truth. "Learning how to think" really means
learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.

## Pages 8-9

**Le Memo Pen**

nonexistent

**The Stocking Frame**

bar located in Downtown LA

**Who said that?**

Ursula K. Le Guin in her short story *The Author of the Acacia Seeds' and Other Extracts from the Journal of*
the Association of Therolinguistics

Longer quote:

Can we in fact know it (The Art of Plant)? Can we ever understand it?

It will be immensely difficult. That is clear. But we should not despair.
Remember that so late as the mid-twentieth century, most scientists, and many
artists, did not believe that Dolphin would ever be comprehensible to the human
brain—or worth comprehending! Let another century pass, and we may seem equally
laughable. "Do you realise," the phytolinguist will say to the
aesthetic critic, "that they couldn't even read Eggplant?" And they
will smile at our ignorance, as they pick up their rucksacks and hike on up to
read the newly deciphered lyrics of the lichen on the north face of Pike's
Peak.

And with them, or after them, may there not come that even bolder
adventurer—the first geolinguist, who, ignoring the delicate, transient lyrics
of the lichen, will read beneath it the still less communicative, still more
passive, wholly atemporal, cold, volcanic poetry of the rocks: each one a word
spoken, how long ago, by the earth itself, in the immense solitude, the
immenser community, of space.

**Jonathan Gold**

An American food critic who currently writes for the Los Angeles Times.

**Steven Pinker**

a Canadian-born American cognitive psychologist, linguist,
and popular science author. He is known for his advocacy of evolutionary
psychology and the computational theory of mind.

## Page 14

**Butterfly wings**

a nod to butterfly effect: butterfly effect is a
concept that states "small causes can have larger effects".

This concept was initially used in theories about weather
prediction but later the term became a popular metaphor in science writing

## Page 17

**only your dreams are**
safe

In TF, we never experienced characters dreaming, only
remembering a dream. Looks like dreams are unreadable by Narcons

## Page 35

**Ratings**

Making the word DREAM

**Entanglement**

Quantum entanglement is a physical phenomenon that
occurs when pairs or groups of particles are generated or interact in ways such that the quantum
state of each particle cannot be described independently of the others,
even when the particles are separated by a large distance—instead, a quantum
state must be described for the system as a whole

**Animality**

animal nature or character.

physical, instinctive behaviour or qualities.

## Page 36

**Proto-Klamath**

Klamath people are a Native American tribe of the
Plateau culture area in Southern Oregon and Northern California

**thunderegg**

A thunderegg (or thunder egg) is a nodule-like
rock,
similar to a filled geode,
that is formed within rhyolitic volcanic
ash layers

## Page 37

**Wizard Island**

volcanic cinder cone which forms an island at the west end
of Crater Lake in Crater Lake National Park, Oregon

## Page 38

**é-ush**

'lake' in Klamath language

**kiä'm**

fish

**ámpu**

water

**Kátak gî**

it is sure

**tcheléwash**

to ripple

## Page 39

**lalî'sh**

steep shore

**ikán**

to agitate/make commotion in water

**húyaha**

to run away from

## Page 40

**géupka**

swimming across

**Mbushéala and shuldákua**

to marry and make love

## Page 42

**awalóga**

little island

## Page 44

**Llao**

the god of the Underworld in Klamath mythology. A long time
ago, he fights with Skell, the sky god. This leads to the eruption of Mt.
Mazama, which leads to the creation of Crater Lake. It is said that in the
beginning, Llao could pass through a hole and climb to the top of the mountain
where he could nearly touch the stars where Skell lived. Wikipedia also says
that the followers of the spirits could reportedly take the form of animals
such as deer, fox, and dove, and they would play together. Allegedly, after he
was killed, Llao’s head became Wizard Island. Gazing upon the waters was
thought to be fatal, and “Sometimes when all seems quiet, Llao's restless
spirit enters the lake and stirs up an angry gale. Llao, chief spirit of Crater
Lake, controlled many lower spirits who appeared in the shape of animals.

**kawakága**

to tear/rip up with teeth

## Page 45

**I saw it...**

“I saw it, true, but I also did not see what I saw, true. I suppose only that it had pupil eyes of the eye [I think this would mean
something like the pupils of the eye took up the whole eye]. Deeper than Crater
Lake. Blacker than this sorcerer’s thunderegg. No lie. Did we see the same
stare?”