American Scholar, September 22nd, 2000
And you do so often read about it as if it were there.
--Gertrude Stein
I'm looking at a current map of Minnesota. I place my finger on Minneapolis and move northwest about 250 miles to Bemidji, a town of about ten thousand, and then I follow U.S. Highway 71 northeast twelve miles to Turtle River Lake Road, where I live, just a mile and a half from U.S. 71.
There's an existential reassurance in being able to point to a map and say, Here, here's where I am. As lost as we may sometimes feel, bewildered as we might be by conundrums large and small--the meaning of life, say, or what to get yo...
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