Sublime
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“Any seed or insect or lizard or mammal that found itself in L.A. had to believe that there was a chance to thrive” (Walter Mosley, Blonde Faith).
Rosecrans Baldwin • Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
The venom of one provides the lifeblood of the other.
William Dalrymple • The Last Mughal
Unknown Mexico: A Record of Five Years’ Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre.
Christopher McDougall • Born to Run
The worthy investment, the millions spent building a trophic Eden, it is simply another grand scheme that he can choose to dismantle again, if he so wishes. There is a bigger, more exciting game – testing beyond the cage, wolves in the real world. You godly fuck, she thinks, you absolute maniac, this is what you wanted all along.
Sarah Hall • The Wolf Border
For his evening reading he stuffed into his briefcase a narrative by an old hunter in the Southwest who had fought Apaches.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Nate Baumgardner
@innateflow
There were children, and then there were the children of Indians, because the merciless savage inhabitants of these American lands did not make children but nits, and nits make lice, or so it was said by the man who meant to make a massacre feel like killing bugs at Sand Creek, when seven hundred drunken men came at dawn with cannons, and then agai
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John McPhee • Annals of the Former World
Nathan Sirrine
@natesirrine