Further reflections on the history of Flight of the Heron

These are some more thoughts arising out of the research I did to put together the FotH Wikipedia article, which involved sorting through decades' worth of writing about and references to The Flight of the Heron on the Internet Archive and other places. Going through the sources over time like this, one gets a broad sweep of general opinion about the book, and a view of how ideas about it have developed over time. ( So here are some of the more interesting things I've found... )