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Animal Farm 1984 Atlas Shrugged Read all…Atlas seems long, but impossible to put down.

A few years ago my family and I travelled to British Columbia. It was blackberry season. The first chance I got, I stopped the car near some bushes in a parking lot, reached past a bramble, and plucked a wild blackberry. It was warm from the sun, slightly bitter, and very sweet. Memories of a childhood roadtrip in the 80s, picking with my sister, and Paul Simon's Graceland album erupted in my tastebuds. It is a flavour that has never been captured by any store-bought, Mexican-imported blackberry