Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it — William T. Vollmann, Poor People
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Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it does rain, the person in the cheap tent chances soaking in his sleeping bag, and possibly dying of hypothermia.

— William T. Vollmann, Poor People
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