Remains of Life by Michael Berry

Author:Michael Berry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Columbia University Press

[Editor’s note: The original format of this book consists of a single extended paragraph with no breaks. The two breaks that appear in this version appear solely to accommodate the file size requirements of the e-book format.]

The winter sun had already ascended high into the sky, I looked down at the refracted shadows stretched crooked across the ground, it was still a long time until noon, I went out to the rear mountain for a stroll, ever since I woke up I had been itching to get outside and go for a walk, nature doesn’t bother with the affairs of man, but just think of how many white-collar urbanites are always dreaming of running off to experience nature, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anyone becoming disillusioned with “nature” and running back in dejection to the city to live out their Remains of Life there, perhaps this is because before they got a chance to “become one with it” they already “became disillusioned by it,” I would love to pay another visit to those Shipping Container Nuns but this time I would bring along two bottles of white spirits, the smell of alcohol in that place of cultivation would mix with the scent of incense curiously resulting in a great breakthrough, otherwise they would just spend all their time reciting passages from dead books, while their eyes “saw not” the natural beauty before them, I’m not sure if two bottles would be enough, a good thing then that the Shipping Container Nuns had taken their cultivation to such depths, If I keep walking at my current pace I wouldn’t get there until dusk, I suspected that they probably adhered to the practice of “fasting in the afternoon,” but last time I was there I’d noticed that nun I spoke to having tea even though it was well past noon, white spirits can of course also be used as a “medicinal remedy” or a late-night snack, if someone were to get up in the middle of the night and “display their true nature” on account of the white spirits I wondered if the Ritual of Displaying One’s True Nature would disturb the nature of the mountains and streams, eventually I turned around on the path and my feet carried me back to the reservation, of course I made sure to pick up a bottle before going home, only when you let yourself loose and just fucking do what you set out to without the slightest hesitation can you clearly see your original intentions a true expression of one’s mind a naked display of one’s true nature, I’d forgotten to ask Girl if I could borrow a traditional headsack, otherwise I would have brought them a hundred bottles of white spirits, that way they wouldn’t run out, they would even have some extra to water their vegetables with, I stopped for a moment when I got to the police station, I realized that there was something that I had to take

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