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...found on any of several state-owned islands on Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. Only the hardiest souls venture on the island expeditions organized by Paul Risk, a prominent outdoorsman whose wilderness-survival courses at Michigan State University draw capacity enrollment. Risk trippers are allowed to take only a blanket, sleeping gear, two candy and two meat bars. One survivor recalls that last year an eleven-member expedition to Garden Island for two weeks subsisted on 36 fish, 29 rabbits and three ducks, plus wild herbs, wintergreen and Euell Gibbons staples...
...blue sedan is parked on the inside shoulder of the eastbound lane of the Ohio turnpike. The driver makes lusty love to a red-shirted girl lying on a blanket on the median strip. Lush-Ohio grass, bent about a subtle flex of asphalt, spinning through the onrush of high-revving machines, hollowed to catch the sky's seed, pulls through their pressing embrace. Coupled in time and stasis, the lovers arch to the Indianapolis sounds of the cars, rising and fading in perpetually lost motions...
...Oldest Confession, seems to be stirring faintly back to life. Money Is Love does have patches so swampy that even addicted admirers will cast down their eyes in shame, but the life signs are nevertheless strong: "Mason took in enough cannabis smoke to allow a Lipan Apache manipulating a blanket over it to transmit the complete works of Tennyson. He swallowed hard. He held it down until his eyes watered, then he blew it out slowly. He grinned at her broadly. 'Your husband was murdered in front of Bloomingdale's at two-ten this afternoon...
Accommodations at Tin City were adequate. But those at Asan were squalid and run-down-and in fact had been condemned a short time before the refugees arrived. At first, four people were forced to share a single blanket on a cold stone floor; few, if any, were issued mattresses or pillows. The grass outside was littered with filth, and water dripped through many of the hallway ceilings. Toilet facilities were primitive and overcrowded...
...those for the war in Viet Nam, but as I slept last night under a soft, warm blanket, I thought of the children of God in Viet Nam under their blankets of stinking death, hunger and abandonment [April 14], and I wondered there in the dark if lightning would strike...