Evenwrite later sneaks into the Stampers’ work area and drives spikes into their logs, intending to break their saws when the logs are cut and thus slow down the Stampers’ operation. They discuss remaining options, including picketing the Stamper logging operation. Evenwrite and Draeger leave disappointed. 'Sometimes I lives in the country Sometimes I lives in town Sometimes I take a great notion To jump into the river an’ drown ' I know little about Oregon State, what little I do know is that it's damp almost all of the time, has it's fair share of trees and woodland, and it's where 'The Goonies' and 'Stand by Me' were filmed, and River Phoenix was born there. As Viv and Draeger talk about what makes the Stampers the way they are, the narrator interjects that their. Sometimes a Great Notion is the second novel by American author Ken Kesey, published in 1964. And the Scenes Gone By and The Scenes to Come flow blending together in the sea-green deep while Now spreads in circles on the surface. The story involves an Oregon family of gyppo loggers who cut trees for a local mill in opposition to unionized workers who are on strike. The Stampers laugh off the idea, explaining that they will lose money if they accept the offer. Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train, though time may run on truth. Draeger and Evenwrite plead with the Stampers to think of kids going “hungry all winter” while the Stampers use the strike “to line your pocket” (410). Draeger makes an offer to Hank to “buy the operation from you outright” (409). This notion was first asserted by Greek philosopher Plato in his treatise, Theaetetus as. Joe Ben finds them stumbling through the dark and takes them to the house, where the Stampers are surprisingly nice to Draeger and Evenwrite. Once across the river at the Stampers’ dock, Evenwrite and Draeger realize they do not have flashlights. They decide to take a boat to talk to Hank directly. The brief prologue to this section refers to a university professor who distilled drinking alcohol from a poisonous plant, saying to anyone who expressed concern that 'one man's poison is another man's high.' The narration of the chapter begins with a detailed description of the heavy rain that began to fall the night of the. Evenwrite blames the difficulties of the labor effort on the rain.
On a rainy night, Evenwrite and Draeger are discussing what to do about the union strike and the Stampers.
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