Correcting the Landscape (2009)
“I mean, these are odd-looking trees, barbaric and sad, and there are entire forests of them growing unobserved and unlabeled up there.
—CHARLES BAXTER, THE FEAST OF LOVE WE WERE A SUBDUED NEWSROOM FOR a few days. Noreen kept after the police department over their investigation into Cathy’s death, and I forced myself to stay at my desk for a change and go through the nonbreaking news. In the Federal Register the EPA reported progress with the cleanup of a salvage yard near the military base wher...e drums of toxic chemicals had been stored for decades, above the water table into which hundreds of nearby homeowners sank their wells. I looked wearily at the announcement and wondered if I had time to follow it up. Just this once could I please slap this verbatim in the paper? And here was something else I ought to try to sort out, Mental Health Trust Lands.
This one had been around since statehood, at least. So that the mentally ill would not have to be shipped outside to Morningside Hospital, in Oregon—“inside, outside, Morningside,”MoreLess
—CHARLES BAXTER, THE FEAST OF LOVE WE WERE A SUBDUED NEWSROOM FOR a few days. Noreen kept after the police department over their investigation into Cathy’s death, and I forced myself to stay at my desk for a change and go through the nonbreaking news. In the Federal Register the EPA reported progress with the cleanup of a salvage yard near the military base wher...e drums of toxic chemicals had been stored for decades, above the water table into which hundreds of nearby homeowners sank their wells. I looked wearily at the announcement and wondered if I had time to follow it up. Just this once could I please slap this verbatim in the paper? And here was something else I ought to try to sort out, Mental Health Trust Lands.
This one had been around since statehood, at least. So that the mentally ill would not have to be shipped outside to Morningside Hospital, in Oregon—“inside, outside, Morningside,”MoreLess
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