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north sides of hills - more evidence of glaciers


south sides of hillside - more vegetation, snow lines, tree lines, and habitation will reach slightly higher. plants germinate 4 days prior on this side

slopes faces prevailing wind have thinner soil and shorter trees than sheltered ones.

rayleigh effect - why the sky is blue and the horizon always appears a shade closer to white

rayleigh scattering - atmospheric optical effect - the further away things are, the lighter they will appear. the closer mountain to you is darker, the one behind it is lighter

Highest point on a hill or mountains there will be surveyors’ trig point - trigonomerical station, in good visibility you should be able to spot at least 2 others on high points in the distance.

smelling smoke on a cold morning - temperature inversion - creates a sandwich effect warm air trapping cold air below - sound,light,radio waves bounce the top of the cold layer and the ground. Things in the distance look like they are floating, - optical illusion - Fata morgana, possible to pick up radio waves 100’s of miles away, flash of green at moment of sunset.

very interesting life. Very close to his mother, Noah was considered colored - which was both white and black and never fit in. He grew up in S. Africa during apartheid, mother exposed him to religion, eduction, book and they worked as a team.

Trevor was thrown from a bus - his mother threw him, herself and his little brother out to evade gang men on the bus

Werner’s sister goes back to Saint-Malo - where Werner was last seen before he died. She took the house with the gem inside - not knowing there was a gem inside. Found the home that the mini home was modeled after, a museum director had the info of the blind girl who once resided there during the war

Volkheimer (Werner’s war friend) now 51 years old, receives his Werner’s belongings in the mail, the US army prisoner of war processing camp is returning the items of dead German soldiers

Warner finds Marie-Laure, kills the German in her house. Marie- Laure sets the gem free enclosed in the miniature house her father built. Warner walks Marie-Laure to safety where she is reunited with her uncle.
Warner goes and retrieves the gem from the ocean, he is then picked up and sent to an infermary, unable to eat and sick he stumbles into a field where he dies from a land mine set out by his own army.

Alone in the attic with her last can of food, just finishing broadcasting the last page of 20,000 leaves under the sea; Marie-Laurie blasts music with the German in the house, if he’s in the house he will no doubt follow the music and kill her. She hides in wait with her knife.

middle of the ppl was boring - about 200 pages. Last 100 is getting really good. Etienne (Marie-Laurie) grandfather just triangulated Werner’s location and had the Hotel of bees bombed

well written, a treasure trove of well written lines and descriptors

..the atavistic part of his brain
..the chords in their throats tighten 173
..his eyes roll like a frightened colt 178

page 165 - the realization that Big Claude has spotted Marie-Laurie’s father pacing the town and tends to use this info the sell