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For centuries, Big Sur residents have seen 'Dark Watchers' in the mountains
- st_goliath 6y agoAs of writing this: Posted 1h ago, has 5 points, no comments and is on the front page. I'm willing to bet this is solely because the title contains the trigger phrase "Big Sur".
- edavis 6y agoI'll take that bet :) This post is on https://news.ycombinator.com/invited https://news.ycombinator.com/invited, a partial list of posts given a second chance at wider visibility by the mods. Here's some background info: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20508960 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20508960 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19774614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19774614
- jancsika 6y ago> The next year, John Steinbeck, who grew up in Salinas, spoke of them in his short story "Flight." Ok, but "spoke of" in a short story in the same sense that I'd buy a good luck trinket with a stone that has "healing vibrations" on a vacation. If Steinbeck thought anything more of the tale than a mere, "Heh, isn't that neat," he would have ruined the ending of Grapes of Wrath by having Dark Watchers show up and kick the plantation owners' asses. It reminds me of that Norm MacDonald joke about the difference between a hypnotist "convincing" someone on stage that they're a chicken and a person actually being convinced they're a chicken.