It’s lost to time what the campers talked about as they chugged into the waves. Maybe they asked one another to which kingdom they pledged their allegiance: animal, vegetable, or mineral. If asked, perhaps David replied with one of his favorite jokes, that due to the dense ivy that overtook the walls of his boyhood home, he became a “botanist in self-defense.”
Im sort of bought in to the geekiness of this book
