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South of Calgary about
70 miles is a place

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called high river
Alberta in which

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lives a hermit Canadian novelist
who's often been compared

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with Faulkner because
of his hermitism

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although he doesn't write
anywhere near as well.

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And I drove down
there when I first

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came to Calgary to have
a look at high river

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and to fix the novels
I'd read in my mind.

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Drove around to
this man's house,

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but was too nervous
to go in and see him

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partly because I
hadn't read his latest

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novel, which had just come out.

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[LAUGHTER]

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"High river Alberta,
the drugstore seeming

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is molded plastered
made in a week

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many years ago
when the CPR tracks

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were attracting people North.

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Mounties and priests
curious Braves

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guarding the
peaceful grass turned

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under the chunky
black dirt falling

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in the shade of green elevators.

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Cows discovered the big
country bringing men with them,

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horses to mount the Indians and
carry them into the Rockies.

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Now they never
come back, but move

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South along the pike eight miles
from town as the country moves.

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It's a pleasant town yet
curiously old in New Alberta.

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One side of a Main Street falls
fronted against a railroad

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no passengers watch from."

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