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taking low-speed rail across the american west

🌻 the scenic route taking low-speed rail across the american west Jasmine Sun Aug 01, 2024 103 25 13 Share Creative writing involves a deliberate rejection of practicality: To get into the right mood for writing requires short-circuiting our usual calculations of profit and loss, since there is nothing as gratuitous as a poem or story. — Adam Kirsch in The New Republic It was misting on the platform when we departed. The temperature measured 58 degrees in Emeryville, California (of East Bay IKEA fame), where our poor, huddled masses gathered in the chill morning air. We were a motley crew: ne

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