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Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied, like in an old silent movie, to a runaway locomotive rushing headlong toward a very singular catastrophe

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Gary Snyder
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 8
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