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“Frontiersmen were never afraid of poetry. It was Big Business with its fear of...”
– Humboldt’s Gift, by Saul Bellow
Eyes closed, but sleep does not come
Although fewer and farther between, there are still nights, such as this one, where I lay awake, riddled with an insomniac’s restleness.
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“In a knot of eight crossings, which is about the average-size knot, there are...”
– Ashley Book of Knots
(quote found in The Shipping News, by E. Annie Proulx)
“In the old days a love-sick sailor might send the object of his affections a...”
– The Shipping News, by E. Annie Proulx
“An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted...”
– Pirsig, “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”
Warning photoplosion ahead!! Well, maybe I don’t really care to warn you. Maybe I just wanted to use my new word: PHOTOPLOSION!!
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Handsome boy modeling school, “The...
