![]() He either returned alive or died in the quicksand and quagmires, depending which version you hear. Some say an agile man known as “Limber” Jim Corbus once got lost there. Nobody knows the true origin of the name. ![]() I am walking on a trail in a part of northeast Indiana that in the 19th century was impenetrable swamp and forest, a wilderness of some 13,000 acres called the Limberlost. More than ten feet tall, with a central taproot reaching even deeper underground, this plant, with its elephant-ear leaves the texture of sandpaper, makes me feel tipsy and small, like Alice in Wonderland. ![]() Yellow sprays of prairie dock bob overhead in the September morning light. –Gene Stratton-Porter, l etter to Miss Mabel Anderson, March 9, 1923 ![]() Hereafter to tack the "ess" on to "author", because one who writesĪ book or poem is an author and literature has no sex. In the first place will you allow me to suggest that you forget ![]()
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