San Jacinto Mountains
Mountain range in Palm Springs, California. Part of California (Literary).
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| How to Do Nothing — Reader’s Companion | Jenny Odell | subject | The mountains rise straight up, purple at sunset, and she cannot stop wanting to look at them. |
How to Do Nothing — Jenny Odell (2019)
Source: How to Do Nothing — Reader’s Companion · How to Do Nothing · Readwise highlight
where I was privately tortured by the allure of the San Jacinto Mountains.
- Role: subject
- In the book: The mountains rise straight up, purple at sunset, and she cannot stop wanting to look at them. Later, reading Gloria Bird on a mountain as a person, she realizes her reaction was a suspicion that ‘someone was there’.
- Why it matters: They trigger her reflection on animate landscapes and the limits of Western language for perceiving the nonhuman.