The Green Anarchist

“Am resolved therefore to continue on my present course: to compose somehow the one good novel; to try to be good to my wife; to run Cataract Canyon in a kayak; to raze more billboards; to build that solid house of rock and wood far out somewhere where my sons and grandsons can find at least a temporary refuge from the nightmare world of 2000 A.D.; and to be ready, with rifle or [?], for the apocalyptic showdown which yet may come–I hope–in our lifetimes…”

-Edward Abbey, 13 December 1966, postcard to Al Sarvis, from “Postcards from Ed”