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Description
Jack Burnes is a loner at odds with modern civilization. A man out of time, he rides a feisty chestnut mare across the New West -- a once beautiful land smothered beneath airstrips and superhighways. And he lives by a personal code of ethics that sets him on a collision course with the keepers... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“The difficulty was they wanted me to register as a conscientious objector. Conscientious objector to what? I asked them. To the war, they said. But I love war, I said; my father got rich off the last one canning dog food for the infantry; all Bondi's love war. Then what do you object to? they said. I object to slavery, I said; compulsory military service is a form of slavery. But there is no provision in the law for such an objection, they said. But it's the law itself that I object to, I said. That is illegal, they informed me. The law is unconstitutional, I replied.... They couldn't understand what was wrong with me or what I was complaining about: obedience is such a fundamental habit of the contemporary American mind that any kind of disobedience is regarded as a form of insanity. So they decided I was mentally incompetent and notified my parents ...”
First Sentence
HE WAS SITTING ON HIS HEELS IN THE COLD LIGHT of the dawn, drawing pale flames through a handful of twigs and dry crushed grass.
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- Edward Abbey (Author)
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