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“Father Pierre, why did you stay on in this colonial Campari-land, where the clink of glasses mingles with the murmur of a million mosquitoes, where waterfalls and whiskey wash away the worries of a world-weary whicker, where gin and tonics jingle in a gyroscopic jubilee of something beginning with J?”
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“Stuff your eyes with wonder," he said, "live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that," he said, "shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.”
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A Short Horse Tale
(Biographies & Memoirs)
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updated Mar 30, 2010 01:33AM
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Just an indepth explanation about my own experience, and that of my dad's, with horses. Inspired by Susan Richards's Chosen by a Horse. Not really intended to be critiqued, but just a reflection on something in my life.
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