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The Sensual and Divine Earth
WE WERE YOUNG and eager river guides, and every spring after the winter rains, my friends and I traveled to the foothills of Northern California to scout the rivers. All around, flaming crimson Indian paintbrush bloomed, and the chattering of bank sw
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After the End
MY NOTES from the summer I spent in Samsø, Denmark, are mostly about its picturesque beauty. The island appears untouched by human hands—all windswept hills, silent beaches, shallows filled with languid purplish jellyfish waiting to be pulled back ou
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Nice Monsters
I WONDER IF you’ve been called nice before, that placeholder of a word. “She’s nice”: a whitewash with a certain generic sheen, coats of primer applied a few too many times, announcing its intention to ward off attention or suspicion. Nice people or

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