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By Jim Abbot
The podcast currently has 14 episodes available.
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“Look,” I said and pointed to my left. The sun was swollen. It sat atop the highest mountain visible to us, and it was drawing all the colors of the desert into the west. We watched, one sunset for three people. I
Works:
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
William Langewiesche, Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert
Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
I read once about a pilot who loved the desert. Flying over it at night, looking up from his cockpit, he saw meteors streaking across a moonless sky, like fiery sparks swept along in a gust of wind.
Works:
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
William Langewiesche, Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert
Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
He did write at least one lengthy letter, however. He composed it on the night before he was to set out on his return trip.
Works:
Novalis, Das allgemeine Brouillon
Caspar David Friedrich, Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer
Virginia Garland, “Light and Shadow in the Park,” in Arthur Adelbert Taylor, California Redwood Park
Richard Preston, The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
Virgil, Georgics
“I loved your grandmother, and she loved me. Still, I think you know how unlike we were. When I was a girl, I didn’t want anything to do with books. History bored me. The two of you shared that, and I’m glad."
Works:
Novalis, Das allgemeine Brouillon
Caspar David Friedrich, Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer
Virginia Garland, “Light and Shadow in the Park,” in Arthur Adelbert Taylor, California Redwood Park
Richard Preston, The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
Virgil, Georgics
Fall gave way to winter. On that Sunday morning before Christmas, I rose before dawn to creep out of the house and make for the river.
Works:
Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
James Joyce, “The Dead”
James Dickey, Deliverance
I ran away from home when I was twelve.
Works:
Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
James Joyce, “The Dead”
James Dickey, Deliverance
Andrea was the name of the veteran who lived under the bridge. She spoke in a whisper, never looking in my direction. Sentences came to me broken into bits, in shards of thought that I had to gather up and fit together.
Works:
Descent of Inanna
Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias”
Gilgamesh
Jonathan Shay, Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Brooke King, War Flower: My Life After Iraq
I remember the gleam of cold starlight on black iron. Ahead lay two ribbons of steel curving into a jagged wall of trees. The train passed through one moonlit town after another, with their houses of weary clapboard and weed-choked yards.
Works:
Frank R. Linderman, Plenty Coups: Chief of the Crows
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
Edmond Jabès, “Drawn Curtains”
With me in the hospital burn unit was an inmate from a nearby prison. There had been a riot. A control system had failed. Or a guard had been bribed. Nobody was entirely sure.
Works:
Jimmy Santiago Baca, A Place to Stand
Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, translation by Constance Garnett
Hesiod, Works and Days
The podcast currently has 14 episodes available.