/lit/ - Literature

>>14623601
>Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth

how does that even work

>>9147030
>"I'll take "reaction faces used to make an emotional point" for $100, please, Alex"
How long have you been here, newfag?
That reaction image is 4-5 years old, easy, and I got it off arcanine.

>>9114549
I grew up in Amish country, working on farms.
Let's see "how much farming" was going on
>The judge was doing was running chickens and a dairy
A dairy requires a herd of cattle and a bull. You will need both pasturage and hay fields and, at that altitude, a lot of it and you must prepare for a long winter. Chickens require grain, management, etc. he's working about 12 hours a day, every day, and since he works alone producing about 10 excess gallons of milk a day and maybe as many as 2 dozen excess eggs a day. He almost certainly can't produce enough grain and meat for himself.
Next long-term resident is Mulligan
>Mulligan grows wheat and tobacco
OK, that's fucking funny as shit. Tobacco is not a food crop, obviously, but it also won't grow in Colorado at 8,000' altitude! He might as well be said to be growing bananas or pineapples. Tobacco requires a long, hot growing season and a long, dry autumn. With moist ground.
So he isn't growing tobacco.
Guess how much wheat he's growing there?
He'll need to work about 16 hours a day during planting and harvesting seasons, 6-8 hours a day tending fields, etc. during growing. If he has a tractor, fuel, etc. he might manage, oh, 30 acres.
>I am being generous
That's about 1,200 bushels of wheat in a year, which is pretty solid. Does he have the equipment to process it? Store it? It takes a lot of work to turn wheat berries into pasta, you know!
Next long term guy is the composer Halley
>He planted fruit trees
LOL!
Know how long it takes an apple tree to produce fruit? Know how long it takes at 8,000'? Know how much fruit per tree, tree per acre, etc.?
In six years he'll start getting apples, folks.,
Six fucking years
And he'll need a lot of land that needs management. Apple trees only produce decently for about 20 years, so you have to plant entire orchards every 5 years and rotate through them
>You knew that, right? Rand obviously didn't!
So from the long term residents you get wheat in the Fall, some milk and eggs every day, and some apples in a few years.
When the Colorado people started flooding in the gulch could support no more than about 15 people, foodwise, and no meat.
There is also no oil (for cooking!), etc.
The entire concept is ridiculous.