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...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ... forest that most Koreans thought of as so beautiful. The way was straight, south and barren and made him almost yearn for the tortuous roads that ap... ... been his life support in the six months he resided in this foreign country, South Korea, which was his birth home and the source of his nationality. ... ...his imagination to green blankets of waving rice, and from there to farmers' markets and rural parades celebrating the farmer, the daily appreciation ... ...nts, cancer, high mortgage payments, a fire gutting a family home, and stock market decline made the firm arms of a loving god into a tenuous thing. ... ...ere sentient beings. They too knew that they were constructing homes in the San Andreas Fault Line. The shaking was quite palpable but what could th... ...his would be a contemplative retreat. A week later she went from New York to San Fransisco; San Fransisco to Tokyo; and then Tokyo to Bangkok. She to... ...made the proposal. "I was thinking that we might fly from Little Rock to San Francisco and then over that way." His hand pointed to the McDonalds arch...

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... CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?................................................................. 68 CHAPTER V - RANDOM MEMORIES.................79 CHAPTER VI - RANDOM M...

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