American Idyll

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Tuesday, January 08, 2019

With The Sinuous Turnings Of An Enormous Snake


Ry Cooder / V.M. Bhatt: Ganges Delta Blues



The great shapes of the hills, embrowned and glowing with the molten hues of autumn, are all about him: the towering summits, wild and lonely, full of joy and strangeness and their haunting premonitions of oncoming winter soar above him,
the gulches, gorges, gaps, and wild ravines, fall sheer and suddenly away with a dizzy terrifying steepness, and all the time the great train toils slowly down from the mountain summits with the sinuous turnings of an enormous snake.
--Thomas Wolfe
Of Time and The River

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