Hundeschlitten

“... with their afternoon's work done and settled themselves at the bar to achieve their lifelong task of shaping from uneventful days in a flat landscape the substance of myth”
― Gerald Murnane , The Plains

“When a man is to wade throughe a deepe water, there is required tallnesse, as well as courage, and if he findes it past his depth, and God open a gapp another waye, he may take it.”
― John Winthrop

“It was what any of them would have done, to have done less would have been cowardice and disgrace... what would pass for heroics in a softer world was only chores around here”
― Wallace Stegner, Wolf Willow

“The best desire one thing above all, ever-flowing eternal fame among mortals; but the many glut themselves like cattle.”
― Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset