On 'The Giving Tree'

What the grown-ups don't tell you is that the Giving Tree's stump was later torn up and mulched at a factory, where it was pulped, pressed, bleached and turned into binding to print copies of Melodie Beattie's self-help book "Codependent No More."


It was all a massive conspiracy to cyclically keep the publishing industry afloat. Truth is, man hasn't actually needed the written word since 1802. It's all a game being played out hundreds of moves in advance between the warring clans Simon and Schuster.