Karl Nitsch on the Carolinian Forest as a food garden that can be tended on ThatChannel.com

• published: 06 May 2015
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Karl Nitsch discusses Ontario's Carolinian forest, and the tended forests of pre-Columbian North America where native peoples got all the food and medicine they needed from the bounty of nature's garden. The conversation veers into a new form of the English language (E2), where the verb "to be" goes unused, and the cultural implications that follow. Then they discuss the novel "Gadsby" by Ernest Vincent Wright, written entirely without the letter "e". From Wikipedia: Gadsby is a 1939 novel by Ernest Vincent Wright. The plot revolves around the dying fictional city of Branton Hills, which is revitalized as a result of the efforts of protagonist John Gadsby and a youth group he organizes. The novel is written as a lipogram and does not include words that contain the letter "e". Though self-published and little-noticed in its time, the book is a favourite of fans of constrained writing and is a sought-after rarity among some book collectors. Later editions of the book have sometimes carried the alternative subtitle 50,000 Word Novel Without the Letter "E". In 1968, the novel entered the public domain in the United States due to failure to renew copyright in the 28th year after publication. In conversation with Hugh Reilly and Arthena Aradhana on Liquid Lunch at ThatChannel.com (http://www.thatchannel.com) 2015-04a-28