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March 27, 1978

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I-THE SNOW LEOPARD

Peter Matthiessen

REPORTER AT LARGE about a journey, beginning in late Sept., 1973, to the Crystal Mountain. Writer walked west under Annapurna and north along the Kali …

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Someone Has Been Disarranging These Roses

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It is Sunday, and the narrator wants to take roses to the grave where his body as a child is buried. He sits in a chair in the corner of the house where he…

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