and scribner was the first one designed from the ground up that starts with fragmented ideas that slowly emerging into a linear structure. there's a technological way that the software helps me with that, and the break through over the three years. it's much easier this way. but, what has to happen is you have to have this period of time. it's about liniarity. you have a long period of time where ideas in the book are good ideas where they don't have order or sequence. they're just little dots of nodes, basically they're a loose network. you have a ceiling of there's an interesting thing here about darwin, and there's an interesting thing about group think, and the nodes start to get bigger. something else taches to it that seems related, and at a certain point you want to look at that map and see there's a big cluster here, and a big cluster here, maybe that -- maybe those are chapterrers. maybe those are sections in one chapter. and only after you get to that point do you then start thinking about sequence. then you're saying okay, but yes, that's interesting, and that's meaningful mat

the greatmpson seton, canadian history writer who ended up settling in santa fe, wrote a story in "scribners" magazine in 1900, to explain why coyotes survived this slaughterhouse. ad he argued that tito, little female pop that had been captured and chained in a rancher's yard, had observed all the stratagems ranchers used to kill coyotes. finds alater escapes, mate in the wild, and then teaches her pops all the things that humans were doing to try to wipe them out. seton argues at the end of that essay that, you basically realize who tito is, she is moses, she is the coyote version of moses, raised among the egyptians, learning all their then leading her people to liberation. [laughter] ecologists realized there was another explanation, that coyotes coevolved against rape -- coevolved along with gray wolves, and when gray wolves were gone and humans replaced harassers, as their they survived everything that we could throw at them, and we threw a lot. we tried to exterminate them. and the last question before i open it to all of you, although i could spend all day talking to each of you, one

he had come home in september of 1929 and his editor, maxwell perkins at scribner and sons, told him to alert his family to what was in the book. thomas wolfe didn't seem to have the courage to do that. and when the book came out, his family was shocked. a little bit angered. his siblings were very upset. but his mother will finally say, as long as he's a success at something, we're going to stand behind him. we believe this is the last room that thomas wolfe will ever sleep in in this house. it was in may of 1937. when "look homeward angel" was printed. thomas wolfe can't go home again and it's going to be almost eight years before he returns when he does, he sneaks in on a bus at night in the dark. he is not sure what kind of reception he is going to get from the citizens of asheville. he finds that he is welcomed home with hospitality. by 1937 thomas wolfe is a rock star. his second book had sold very well. he had many short stories in print and major american magazines. his books are in the multiple languages overseas. who were angry with thomas wolfe in 1929, most of them are ok