#ohhhhhh this is tapping into childhood memory I just realised. I might be making this up and it’s from smth else but
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thinking abt the horror inherent to cornfields again. maybe I’m just british and have never seen cornfields (I know we DO grow it over here but I haven’t like. seen it) but the thought of an annual crop plant growing THAT TALL (average 2.5m/8ft) for us to just eat the grain feels viscerally wrong. wheat is like 1.2m/4ft you can exist in a wheat field but corn will swallow you whole
#this post brought to you by guy from wheat/potato/rapeseed farming area#I’m also pretty sure this has been said many many times but when I hear abt cornfields it’s normally joking abt like. is it iowa#or whatever just them being big#which yeah itself is fucking terrifying but god like corn is a Big Plant#ohhhhhh this is tapping into childhood memory I just realised. I might be making this up and it’s from smth else but#watership down when they’re in the field with the tractor? or maybe just hiding in a massive field?#but they’re rabbits so the plants are obviously Kinda Big#anyway cornfields are a monument to man’s hubris. we’ve taken this crop (which I will say was not meant to be grown like this)#that is significantly bigger than us and put them in nice evenly spaced rows for miles and miles#we grew a grass forest to eat but it Does Not Care About You. you are insignificant to the corn.#i do Not have the words to do this justice and again I have never seen cornfield this is all second hand but.#it’s all just so alien#I wonder what fairy stories we would’ve gotten about cornfields if they’d been around back then#this concludes cornposting hours.#luke.txt
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