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“Three other pieces of mail: An overdue notice from the library. Facing the Lions, by Tom Wicker. Wicker had spoken to a Rotary luncheon a month ago, and he was the best speaker they’d had in years.”
― Richard Bachman, Roadwork

“Suggested Further Reading The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr Dune by Frank Herbert To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey Crystal Eaters by Shane Jones Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi State of Wonder by Ann Patchett”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE CROSSROADS OF CIVILIZATION Refuge of all the arts against the ravages of time armoury of fearless truth against whispering rumor incessant trumpet of trade From this place words may fly abroad not to perish on waves of sound not to vary with the writer’s hand but fixed in time having been verified in proof Friend you stand on sacred ground THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE”
― Paulette Jiles, News of the World

“beyond the confluence lies the wilderness of the Needles country, known to only a few cowboys and uranium prospectors; on the west side of the junction is another labyrinth of canyons, pinnacles and fins of naked stone, known to even fewer, closer than anything else in the forty-eight United States to being genuine terra incognita—The Maze.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire