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...read endlessly at the library--Montana newspapers (the librarian did not subscribe to out-of-state papers), books in Spanish and German (usually borrowed from other libraries), issues of Scientific American and Omni. Once a month or so, he would visit the grocery store and load staples into his backpack: Spam and canned tuna and flour. He was strange, the townspeople said, but no stranger than others who had come to hide at the end of the world...
...choose to work in a bike shop for a summer instead of doing research with a professor, will that really ruin the rest of your life? If you take a year off to travel around the Himalayas with a backpack while your corporate friends earn $40,000 their first year, does that mean you are a failure? If you work in a non-career-track job before you decide whether to go to graduate school, does that mark you as a loser...
After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire. Call it recreational primitivism. But the mind needs its rest too. So we go intellectual backpacking: We dabble in potions and auras; we give rapt attention to bearers of tales of alien abduction and Satanism in schools. "I can stand brute force," wrote Oscar Wilde, "but brute reason is quite unbearable." Ah, the relief...
...November 30th an unidentified man burglarized the rooms of several students residing in Matthews Hall. Among the items stolen were a bicycle, a backpack, several wallets and a drawer full of socks...
...Reinhard and Zarate stuffed the 90-lb. corpse, curled in its fetal position, into a backpack and climbed down after sunset. Eventually they were able to load Juanita onto the back of a mule, her body wrapped in blue foam sleeping pads to insulate it from the animal's body heat. She made the final leg of the trip to the city of Arequipa in the baggage hold of an overnight bus. A second expedition recovered the other two bodies...