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Am I reading this correctly: "EXTREMELY WEAK. FAULT OF POT[ATO] SEED." McCandless wrote "POT SEED" and the author inferred that he meant potato seed? Is that
by bostonpete 13y ago
Am I reading this correctly:
"EXTREMELY WEAK. FAULT OF POT[ATO] SEED."
McCandless wrote "POT SEED" and the author inferred that he meant potato seed? Is that a given...?
Also, doesn't this author seem a bit sloppy? First, he asserts in an 8400-word article that McCandless died from sweet pea seeds, which he shrugs off because he was on a tight deadline. Then he says he made a "rash" decision to suggest in his book that the wild-potato seeds contain swainsonine?
- glibgil 13y agoIt is a given. McCandless meant to write potato seed. Krakauer wasn't sloppy. He was right. He knew that wild potato seeds killed McCandless. He just didn't know how. Krakauer pursued the analysis himself to determine what toxin was present in the seeds. That's not good enough? Man, everyone's a critic.