Of moles and men: A memoir about the virtue of letting nature alone
Sep 30, 2019
3 minutes
Perhaps a better name for Marc Hamer’s book would have been “How Not to Catch a Mole,” since this slender memoir, in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau, argues for the virtue of letting stuff alone.
“I am tired,” Hamer declares, “of looking for hidden things; the things that matter are all there, just to be had, lying on the surface.”
Hamer, who worked around his home in Wales for many years as a professional mole catcher,
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