"After a moment, looking up, he asked me a hard question of his own...What did I hope to find? I shrugged, uncomfortable...How could I say that I wished to penetrate the secrets of the mountains in search of something still unknown that, like the yeti, might well be missed for the very fact of searching?"
Peter Matthiessen
The Snow Leopard
On Turning 71 in 2017: Reporting Yet
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*My 71st Year*
*After surmounting three-score and ten,*
*With all their chances, changes, losses, sorrows,*
*My parents' deaths, the vagaries of my life,...
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