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@futurebird If I remember Grove’s other works, he is quite reflexive about the smugness of his Lake Simcoe Ontario & Manitoba homesteader world. They see themselves as morally superior, esp vis a vis Toronto.
As someone raised in Berlin, it must’ve been quite clear to him.
That the ants mirror this kinda fits.
@futurebird Grove is always taught in CanLit classes, esp Master of the Mill.
In my recollection, he used ants as positive symbols of his world of Ontario settler homesteaders but ultimately powerless in rising urban industrialization.
This is a good book review mentioning the Canadian history aspects of his ant novel. https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/58/proietti58art.htm
“George Carlin was right - America is just an oil company with an army.”
When I heard Donald Trump saying he might use a military option to oust a socialist government in an economically ravaged, oil-dependent economy, I thought he was talking about Alberta.
Prince George Citizen Letters to the Editor Roy Olsen
Feb 21, 2019 10:03 PM”
Omniscient - 20/20 Hindsight