Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from it more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.
(John Updike, Self-Consciousness: Memoirs, 1989, Ch. 6)
Saturday, September 27, 2008
My Beloved Anthracite Coal Region II
Here's another shot of the Reading Coal & Iron Company's Saint Nicholas Coal Breaker in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. This may well become a bit of history because, as you see, the destruction is already well under way.
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