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Next one's called
"Solstice," and it

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begins in an airport coming
back from this backpacking area.

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Of course, it's quite a--

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you suffer re-entry shock
going from the wilderness

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to the airport.

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It begins in the airport, and
then there's a flashback to,

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just a very few hours ago, when
we were strolling in the woods

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and saw a bear, big fat--

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once you see a bear, it's a
real high point in your life

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and have loose flesh and
swaying back and forth.

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And they look very human for us.

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Now, also it bugged
me up there in Idaho

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because the sun never went down.

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In the summer, the latitude,
or longitude, whichever it is,

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is quite different from
what it is down here.

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And my friends, who live in
the middle of that wilderness,

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were just down this
weekend, and they said

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it's pretty bad in wintertime.

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Sun comes up at 9
o'clock and sets at 4:00,

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or something like that.

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But in the summer,
it's the reverse.

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Go to bed at 10:00, and
the sun's still shining.

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"Solstice"

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"At the airport,
the fried chicken

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pops out of the silver box.

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Sailors, a crew of
saints, waving their arms,

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welcoming rescue, but there
is the salad, a miracle,

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cool by its side,
a forest just cut,

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following its own clearing.

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A puff of ice cream
with a dot, and as you

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take it in your
fingers, swing them

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past your face, the marrow
swelling from the bone,

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breaking through the
crust, you remember

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the names of all the
children plunging naked

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into the edge of the sea.

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Up in the woods of Idaho, just
hours ago, at evening, the bear

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ahead on the slope,
down on all fours,

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walking in circles,
a man in a bathrobe

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with bags under his
eyes looking for grubs.

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So that beet in you fell into
bed backwards at 10 o'clock

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with the sun high over
the horses in the meadow,

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woke with its light still up."

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