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    Soliloquy: One Sociopath's Opinion
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    Soliloquy: One Sociopath's Opinion

    By Desertphile

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    People who wander the deserts tend to entertain themselves with musing about every conceivable topic, with thoughts of life and humanity's place in the universe dominating one's contemplation. This may be due to the fact that the environment they reside, work, and play in is trying hard to kill them. While no desert has ever been guilty of premeditated murder, deserts do seem to brood with a passive enmity for all living things; plants and animals, crows and kit foxes, coyotes and cactus, humans and honey bees.... the desert does not really play favorites. Deserts may be inhospitable, but they are never hostile; deserts may kill those creatures not fit enough to survive in them, but it is nothing personal. When one hikes across a desert, one takes one's chances, just like the buzzards and the jack rabbits.

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    PublisherDesertphile
    Release dateMar 1, 2014
    ISBN9781311709639
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    Soliloquy: One Sociopath's Opinion
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    Desertphile

    When I was 22 years ago I took a road trip from Orange County, California, to Las Vegas. Along the way I got caught in the awe that is known as the East Mojave Desert; I never got to Las Vegas on that trip--- around Death Valley I stopped my pickup on the side of the highway, picked a point far across the desert to walk towards, and I set out on foot without proper boots, no hat, and no water.... and I kept walking for the rest of the day, the entire night, another day, and another night. Eventually I turned around and found my way back to the highway, tennis shoes in tatters and more dead than alive--- and I was happy to have had the experience. Since that time I have learned all that I can about the East Mojave: the biology, the geology, and the history (pre-written, military, and contemporary). My passionate love affair with the desert is unrequited, since it has tried to kill me a few times (never with malice), and I keep returning to the desert every chance I get. My work history: machine shops running a drill press and turret lathe; a city garbage collector; an electrical assembler building wire harnesses for medical diagnostic machines; wafer fabrication in a clean room; AS400 IBM computer operator and programmer; Visual BASIC Microsoft Windows programmer; able bodied sea man; boat delivery crew; gold prospector and miner; and cattle ranch hand. I do not kill people for a living.

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