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A short ways upriver from St. Louis, Hunt’s riverboat with the new recruits had stroked past a hamlet, La Charette, where an old man stood on the riverbank. Some of the party recognized him. It was eighty-four-year-old Daniel Boone, who had
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“He makes a careful inventory of his thoughts and decides that he isn’t unhappy. He just desires no further movement, for the time being. If there’s pleasure in action, there’s peace in stillness”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
“But if a story has all the elements, it will be legend around here, where we love our neighbors so much we can’t stop talking about them.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“Tommy, though. Smart as hell, he could think himself out of any hole, but then would crawl back into it and sit there. It was like he chose the shit end of the stick, so nobody else would get it. A hard thing to watch.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“An interesting question,” Olive said, “which I’d like to consider in these last few minutes, is why there’s been such interest in postapocalyptic literature over this past decade or so. I’ve had the tremendous good fortune of getting to travel a great deal in the service of Marienbad—”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
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