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  • The Ballad of Bill and Bud

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    K. L. Homme
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    Bill lived free in his truck-bed camper.  Every summer he’d roll into town with his wife and two daughters, stock up at the local grocery store, and park under the Ponderosa pines, where he lived free of rent and indoor plumbing in the shadow of the volcano. He was not a tall man, but he…

  • Field Note 3.2 — All The King’s Candy

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    K. L. Homme
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    Every kingdom starts with a taste for something sweet. “Thus do men swallow the honeyed poison of the mouth.” — Lucretius, On The Nature of Things, Book IV “So long as man remains free, he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.” — Ivan Karamazov, The Brothers Karamazov Ivan The Parable…