Sunday, January 6, 2013

The Life to which I Plan on Retiring.

I thought of the type of person I want to be today. I want to have a rundown house that sits in the Oregon wilderness and I want to have a faithful, well-trained beagle named Hemingway. In one of the rooms of my house, I'll keep my collection of rare middle-eastern ocarinas that I play occasionally over a humble fire that consumes the logs of my labor in my house's furnace. I'll have an old delicately engrave, double-barreled shotgun that I'd use occasionally for food, and during my hunting trips, my beagle will respond to to my whistles by bringing me all sorts of hare and fowl. I will also have an unusually keen knowledge of nautical history and general maritime practices. I'll have a 60's era Honda motorcycle that I'll use to drive into town once in a while. I'll ultimately live a simple life, when I speak, I'll be economic with words. When I listen, I'll be economic with prejudice.

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