Gary Larson's "There's a Hair in My Dirt!" (spoiler alert)
After The Far Side, Gary Larson wrote There’s a Hair in My Dirt!
During dinner, the son in a worm family complains about hair in his
food prompting his dad to tell the story of a girl who loves nature
but doesn’t understand that plants produce air and compete against
each other for pollinators. That bird songs are “insults, warnings,
and come-ons”; that tortoises can drown, that toads have skin
toxins, that salmon find their way home by smell, that dead trees are
valuable as are small fires at the right time. On her way home she
finds a snake killing a mouse. She killed the harmless snake and
released the cute mouse but caught a virus from the mouse and died –
becoming the “Harriet” in the young worm’s dirt!
My build contains trees, flowers, insects, birds, a small forest
fire, a standing dead tree that can fall to the forest floor, fish
navigating a rocky stream (with an approaching bear carrying a jar of
tartar sauce), a tortoise and, of course, a snake, rodent, skull and
bones.
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