Tea’s Reviews > Desert Solitaire > Status Update

"Mesa, canyon and plateau, the pacific desert lies in whiskey-colored light and lilac dust, a sea of silence. Clouds edged with fire sail on the clear horizon."

"We need more coyotes more than we need, let us say, more people, of whom we have already an extravagant surplus, or more domesticated dogs, which we could and should be ground up into hamburger and used as emergency coyote food, to raise their spirits and perhaps improve the tenor of their predawn howling."

"Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear -the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break. Turning Plato and Hegel on their heads I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun."

"All things excellent are difficult as they are rare, said a wise man. If so, what happens to excellence when we eliminate the difficulty and the rarity?"

Cowboys and Indians, good chapter. With a read on it's own.