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petroglyphs and pictographs… “those voices of silence which speak to us in first world language” p115

cowboys…

okay so warn me before i’m alone in an empty house reading this book and u tell me about a boy who saw his father get shot in the desert and he ran away and ate psychedelic plants and tripped and then floated down a river and died??? girl!! like was that even a real story !? how were u the omniscient narrator. pls tell me u made that up

love this book

“(The Natural Money-Mint. With supersensitive antennae these operatives from the C. of C. look into red canyons and see only green, stand among Howers snorting out the smell of money, and hear, while thunderstorms rumble over mountains, the fall of a dollar bill on motel carpeting.)”

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