Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet. —Rudyard Kipling waiting . . . fresh snow in the Absarokas (pronounced Ab-SOAR-kause) waiting . . . snow / beautiful / mountains answered by warm autumn sun down here in the valley…
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With so short a time to live and think about stuff, I've spent just about the right amount of time on this butterfly. 20 A warm afternoon Pine Creek, Montana September 3
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1,2,3,4,5,7,6,8,9 September 1
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I was dive-bombing the lower emotions on a typical yesterday . . . after I had sworn never to do it again. I guess never's too long a time to stay out of the cockpit with the wind screaming down the wings and the target almost praying itself into your sights.…
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Two words: Camelot gone
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A face concocted from leftovers of other faces needs a mirror put together from pieces of broken mirrors.
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It is a very dark place without stars, and even when you arrive there twenty minutes early, . . . you are late.
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Why is it when I walk past funeral parlors they remind me of the smell of fresh paint and I can feel the smell in my stomach? It does not feel like food.
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Things slowly curve out of sight until they are gone. Afterwards only the curve remains.
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Part 7 Everybody's coming home except Captain Martin.
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Part 6 Yes, that's the table where Captain Martin sat. Yes, that one. By the window. He would sit there alone for hours at a time, staring out at the sea. He always had one plain doughnut and a cup of coffee. I don't know what he was looking at.
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Part 5 Famous people and their friends get to go to places where you can only imagine what they are doing. I was at a party two nights ago* and a famous person was there. When he left five or six people left with him.…
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Part 4 Small craft warnings mean nothing to Captain Martin . . . nothing . . . like somebody deliberately choosing not to look out the window, so the window remains empty.
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Part 3 A child stands motionless. He holds a bottle in his hands. There's a ship in the bottle. He stares at it with eyes that do not blink. He wonders where a tiny ship can sail to if it is held prisoner in a bottle. Fifty years from now you will find out, Captain Martin,…
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Part 2 People are constantly making entrances into entrances by entering themselves through houses, bowling alleys and planetariums, restaurants, movie theaters, offices, factories, mountains and Laundromats, etc., entrances into entrances, etc., accompanied by themselves.…
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Part 1 We all waved as his boat sailed away. The old people cried. The children were restless.
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Part 14 Sam likes to say, "Ah, great expectations!" at least three or four times in every conversation. He is twelve years old. Nobody knows what he is talking about when he says it. Sometimes it makes people feel uncomfortable.
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Part 13 Molly is afraid to go into the attic. She's afraid if she went up there and saw the box of clothes that she used to wear twenty years ago, she would start crying.
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Part 12 Morgan finished second in his high school presidential election in 1931. He never recovered from it. After that he wasn't interested in people any more. They couldn't be counted on. He has been working as a night watchman at the same factory for over thirty years now.…
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Part 11 Every night: just before he falls asleep Walter coughs. Having never slept in a room with another person, he thinks that everybody coughs just before they fall asleep. That's his world.
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