In the Book on My Desk Musing

from "Postcards from Ed" by Edward Abbey
(Note: I don't agree with Mr. Abbey's views on many, many things, but the tone of his letters, such as this one, cracks me up ...)

To the High Country News, Lander, Wyoming
Dear Friends:
Please don't print that dumb interview from the "New Mexico Independent." I must've been drunk or hung over. That's not me talking, that's me trying to impersonate a responsible conservationist. I am not a responsible conservationist, I am a wild preservative. If I knew how to blow up Glen Canyon Dam, I'd be out there working on it tonight.
Yrs truly, Ed Abbey -- Wolfe Hole