Self is on Section 2 of Kolbert’s Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future.
The future of life, Kolbert says, is Extinction.
And no one writes Extinction with a capital ‘E’ like Elizabeth Kolbert.
Kolbert is scary good when she writes about soon-to-be-extinct animal species.
In section 2, Into the Wild, she focuses her tremendous laser-like intelligence on pupfish, whose only known habitat is Devils Hole in Death Valley National Park.
She makes passing reference to Edward Abbey, whose Desert Solitaire made quite an impression on self when she read it, decades ago.
p. 78:
- Though the book chronicles Abbey’s stint as a ranger in Arches National Park, in Utah, he wrote most of it sitting at a bar in a brothel just a few miles from Devils Hole.
A brothel? Really?
Stay cool, dear blog readers. Stay cool.
