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Posted By: davidcycleback

I remember Kerouac's autobiographical story about being a firetower watchman in the mountains near where I live. He said he became so insanely bored that he tore apart the tower's floor boards looking for something to read. Offers psychological insight into Ranger Gord, a psychotic Canadian firetower watchman television character. Rarely having visitors in his tower, Ranger Gord mistook a log for a naked woman, tried to tag flies using a stapler, married the woods (with wedding photos) and had various psychotic episodes ("The first time you see a snake and a birch fighting to the death in middle of the woods, you think you might be seeing things. But when you see it seven or eight times a day, you know it's real.").