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• It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will…
• I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily…
• Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.
• Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.
• Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and…
• Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.
• It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything…
• Bwenawa brought my attention to two wooden planks raised about four feet above the ground. On the ledges were lagoon fish sliced…
• No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.

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