[benbreen]

Author here - just wanted to clarify in case there is any confusion that those two (intentionally bad/weird) figures of speech about the echo and the trouts in the redwood roots were human written, by me! I wrote them as parody of an AI trying to do "literary" writing. The actual (probable) AI written excerpts are below that part.

I was thinking about the immortal Twin Peaks line "there's a FISH... in the PERCOLATOR" when I wrote the trout one.

[jerf]

And for what it's worth, in the great-great-grandparent of this post, I wrote them by hand too.

I've certainly seen enough instances that I know it's pretty realistic.