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Today, Madson looks out over the frozen horizon from his home near the Illinois bluff by the Mississippi River with a sense of foreboding. "I don't think the farm culture will pass," he says. "Farmers want to farm. They will keep on until all is gone...
Wherever the author goes, father-son parallels seem to stretch to the horizon without touching: in the Roman Catholic Church, which he abandons and rejoins; in the attitudes of his doctors after Lance, a heavy smoker, suffers a heart attack at 36; in the jousting of police and demonstrators. The relationship that causes the greatest internal rift is the one between Hugh Morrow and Nelson Rockefeller. "No one does the words better than Hughie," Henry Kissinger remarks, as if "he were giving an endorsement to the pastry chef." Those words, Morrow acrimoniously notes, are what Rockefeller demands for 21 years...
...standard milestones of progress. But it is unreasoning hope, futile hope, doomed hope that occasionally expresses the poetry of surprise. If everyone subscribed entirely to the rule of common sense, the world would be a quite different place. Christopher Columbus would probably have looked to the Western horizon and told his crew, "There doesn't seem to be anything in sight. Let's turn around and go home...
...postponed for up to five days. But this day was so clear you could almost see tomorrow. The Salmon River Mountains were below. The way the snow caught the sun, the snow looked like diamond dust. Off the starboard wing the Sawtooth Mountain Range made a ragged platinum horizon. Down canyons, through passes, over peaks, the Cessna with the skis affixed to its wheels threw a shadow that caused elk, long-horned sheep and mountain goats to bolt. On the control panel Arnold has tacked a sign: IF YOU WISH TO SMOKE, PLEASE STEP OUTSIDE...
...jutted out into the harbor; a hovercraft bobbed passively on the water; passengers moved single file from a ferry to a train that soon started up, shrieked metal on metal and moved on. The sea continually changed color and direction, the sun laying a slice of silver on the horizon, which faded to a dull blue a moment later. In the office a boyish customs officer played rock music on his tape deck on a plastic table: "I've got you, baby./ You've got me." He did not mind the presence of a visitor. "Breaks the boredom," he said...