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Show 196 CHAPTER V: STORMY SERMONS [If possible, the manuscript King Sequoia letter will be reproduced before this chapter.I THE LANGUAGE OF VISION Sometime in the fall of 1870, Jeanne Carr received an amazing letter. Since it was headed "Squirrelville, Sequoia Co, Nut Time," and bore no signature, it might have suggested some mysterious origin. But the voice! It was the eternal voice of vision and indicated that John Muir had entered the timeless season in the soul that one might call Harvest. He was ecstatic; "I'm in the woods, woods, woods, and they are in me-ee-ee," he sang. He had been saved, healed, and made whole by taking the sacrament of Sequoia with Douglas squirrel. Drunk with Sequoia wine, he considered eating the |