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“I’m made for this summer logging,” said Arn Peeples. “You Minnesota fellers might like to complain about it. I don’t get my gears turning smooth till it’s over a hundred. I worked on a peak outside Bisbee, Arizona, where we were only eleven or twelve miles from the sun. It was a hundred and sixteen degrees on the thermometer, and every degree was a foot long. And that was in the shade. And there wasn’t no shade.”
— From Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams (p. 16)…

March 12, 2013
Tags: writing, Denis Johnson, Train Dreams, Pacific Northwest
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