Diary of a Fire Lookout (2008)(theparisreview.org) |
Diary of a Fire Lookout (2008)(theparisreview.org) |
For any reader of Edward Abbey, this essay is delightfully pretentious and soft. I actually assumed it was semi-ironic until I looked up the author. If you found it interesting, and prefer a bit more grit, consider reading Edward Abbey’s essay Fire Lookout. And if you are at all fond of cheesy romance, Abbey’s [mediocre, on-topic] novel Black Sun. For the very brave, you might try spending a summer of your own up on the tower, it’s still a thing in the American West, not as many operating towers as there used to be (because technology), but a job that doesn’t require much special training. If you look hard you’ll find a tower with serviceable LTE - please post back if you try the digital monk thing on a fire tower!