August 2008
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44. To climb the glass mountain, one first requires a good reason.
45. No one has ever climbed the mountain on behalf of science, or in search of celebrity, or because the mountain was a challenge.
46. Those are not good reasons.
47. But good reasons exist.
The Glass Mountain, one of my favorite stories by Donald Barthelme. I was 14 when Sixty Stories blew my mind.
