a part of me genuinely wants to do a skim through all of mxtx's novels to find every reference to plants, animals, insects, fungi, etc that I can, to see what kind of vision of the natural world she presents in her stories. the other part of me is like....but that is SO much text to skim through.
and would anyone else even be interested in this beyond @Betty and me, lol
@soph_sol dork fistbump
@soph_sol 90% of MXTX plants are metaphorical. Like, consider "lotus"
@Betty oh for SURE. If a plant doesn't have metaphorical resonance or plot relevance then does it even need to be mentioned.
@soph_sol haha, I just looked up "willow" in my dictionary of Chinese symbolism
@Satsuma @soph_sol it's this one. Notice how many of the reviewers are like: "does everything symbolize sex???". https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1626766.A_dictionary_of_Chinese_symbols