Word: alle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once in a while, Justin wondered why he had embarked on such an impulsive venture. Not like him at all: maybe that was the point.
Justin asked himself why Kamik did this all the time, why he had painstakingly learned English, just to wander from checkpoint to checkpoint in the dismal, cursed Arctic. Probably because it was part of Kamik's Eskimo mentality, Justin decided, but the Edmonton man realized he would never fully understand...
All Justin saw on the horizon was a white-hot, white desert. Stranded, his food ravaged by the rabid bear, left without an igloo, he felt doomed. His fingers no longer functioned, his features were numb from the incessant cold.
The Northern Adventures representative of the village of Hooka approached semi-conscious Syd Justin. "Are you all right, sir? We were worried about you."
The funeral of the timid caribou is uneventful. Snow blows gently over their carcasses, until they are buried. Such are the icons of the North: forgotten monuments to the time when all caribou will instinctively step over the pipelines.