Escape the delusion, the noise and pollution, The true immortals are made out of wood. They call us Bristlecone Pines. They call me Methuselah.

A decade or so ago, Mohlenbrock, a professor of botany at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, visited the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, part of ... looking at Methuselah," he wrote ...

Methuselah continues the same discussion ... where Shaw's writing was weakest and most forced. The two acts of Part I ("In the Beginning") remain virtually intact, and these are really great ...