"Thank God we can't tell the future, we'd never get out of bed." Tracy Letts
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
When Daniel Plainview Planted Wildflowers
Daniel Plainview was consumed by seething hatred since he "slithered from his mother's filth." On sage advice, and wishing to become a better man, Daniel planted wildflowers in his East Tennessee retirement haven, just out back in his field, attenuating his generalized hatred by cultivating a share of beauty. He tended the seedlings and little suckers, experiencing the glory of god almighty in the process. "The glory of the flower." Thanks to confederate William Johnson of Alabama, his eponymous Johnson Grass squeezed from the earth and choked strangled Daniel's enterprise to death, leaving, thick bladed Nam-like jungles in the wake. And on account of the predation, Daniel returned to his default setting, which was compounded by these events. Drunken, he swore that he would he would stalk as many of Johnson's descendants as he could locate and rape them all to death.
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