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Letter From The Desert: Snek

Letter From The Desert: Snek

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Chris Clarke
Apr 25, 2018
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Letter From The Desert: Snek
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Let us briefly consider, then, the true soul of the American desert, the purest expression of honesty and animal guilelessness the arid lands may offer, a spirit trustworthy and honorable and true, of the kind and pensive character one might admonish one's children to emulate, that exclamation mark to the desert's run-on sentence: the rattlesnake.

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