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excerpt007,"Yes, for I’d thought, in June, hitchhiking up there to Skagit Valley in northwest Washington for my fire lookout job ‘When I get to the top of Desolation Peak and everybody leaves on mules and I’m alone I will come face to face with God or Tathagata and find out once and for all what the meaning of all the existence and suffering and going to and fro’ in vain’ but instead I’d come face to face with myself, no liquor, no drugs, no chance of faking it but face to face with ole Hateful Duluoz Me…”",Jack Kerouac,<i>Desolation Angles</i>,,,,,,1965,
excerpt008,Men go mad in this line of work.,Ed Abbey,"""Fire Lookout""",,,,,,1972,
excerpt009,"But although I was fully aware of the practical aspects of my responsibility, there was another feature of my job that moved me far more deeply, namely the beauty on which my eyes were privileged to dwell continually.",Martha Hardy,<i>Tatoosh</i>,,,,,,1980,
excerpt010,"Some of the notable characters to spend a summer in this hellhole with a view like heaven included a fellow named Kerouac, who wrote a full-length book about angels and demons that would take someone higher than the peaks to be able to follow. Another, named Kachen, was born in Russia, fled to Manchuria, then to the North Cascades where he became a Desolation lookout for a time. Yet another disoriented soul from the big city wandered around the peak naked all one summer. Finally, there was the lad from Sweeden who wore straw sandals, sported a full-circle mandarin moustache, and chanted from a book on Oriental mysticism all day long … thinking he was Chinese.",Ray Kresek,<i>Fire Lookouts of the Northwest</i>,,,,,,1984,
excerpt010,"Some of the notable characters to spend a summer in this hellhole with a view like heaven included a fellow named Kerouac, who wrote a full-length book about angels and demons that would take someone higher than the peaks to be able to follow. Another, named Kachen, was born in Russia, fled to Manchuria, then to the North Cascades where he became a Desolation lookout for a time. Yet another disoriented soul from the big city wandered around the peak naked all one summer. Finally, there was the lad from Sweeden who wore straw sandals, sported a full-circle mandarin moustache, and chanted from a book on Oriental mysticism all day long … thinking he was Chinese.",Ray Kresek,<i>Fire Lookouts of the Northwest</i>,/objects/ray_kresek_author_photo.jpg,image,Ray Kresek Author Photograph,ray_kresek_author_photo.jpg,/objects/ray_kresek_author_photo.jpg,1984,Fire Lookouts of the Northwest
excerpt011,"Nosing the wine, I picked out and inserted a cassette, and the tiny glass house was filled with a Bach cello solo. Outside the lightning flashed and a drizzle of rain ran down the panes. The warmth of the wine and the fire rose to my head. By the third glass I was slightly giddy, a cheap drunk on an empty stomach. The stark music was punctuated by the booms of thunder.",Doug Peacock,"""The Lookout""",,,,,,1990,
excerpt012,"Had lookouts been in existence in [Thoreau’s] time, he could have been an inspector, not of snowstorms, but thunderstorms. His life-long quest for the suitable vocation would have been satisfied, and perhaps he might have written yet another Walden-like book—casting stones at civilization from his glass house.",Don Scheese,"Henry David Thoreau, Fire Lookout""",,,,,,1990,
excerpt013,"Certain landscapes are those of the spirit, wild and undefined. Without them, we become strangers, alien from the forces that give us life.",Jackie Maughan,"""The Telescoping Effect""",,,,,,1995,
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