a snapshot in words...

from Yosemite Trails

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Tongue in cheek, Chase, in this paragraph, offers

an association of adverbs, breathless, as if to 

overcome the reader at once. Upon reflection

one realizes it mirrors the ' distractingly plentiful '

experience Chase is desiring to convey; that symphony
of nature, alive! The spot on characterizations such as
 ' indecisions of butterflies, ' and ' pipings and rustling overhead, '

brilliantly evoke for the reader a sense of being there.

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" Trailside company is distractingly plentiful: there are pipings and

rustling overhead, excited scamperings underfoot, underground

soliloquies of amphibious brooks, indecisions of butterflies,

imminent perils of pendent bees, trepidations of lizards, absurdities

of inverted beetles, perturbations of ants, exasperations of gnats with

assassinations of the same; and everywhere green laughter of leaf and

grey reverie of lichen. "

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