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“the solitude of vermont was weighing on me; the community was mythological; in reality life was isolating, each household its own entity.”

suck shit, sufjan stevens. (#4)

“the winter starts straight after all saints’ day. that’s the way here; the autumn takes away all her tools and toys, shakes off the leaves—they won’t be needed anymore—sweeps them under the field boundary, and strips the colors from the grass until it goes dull and gray. then everything becomes black against white: snow falls on the plowed fields.”

we talk to stephen markley, author of the deluge, about prescience, cynicism vs. optimism, and mutual friends.

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“i said that’s not what my father taught me. my father said there were two things in this world that would never change: the mountains and the sea.”