Recorded on West Mountain, just west of Spanish Fork, Utah. It was blustery and cold, but kind of weirdly beautiful regardless. Beautiful in its desolate ugliness, I guess.
The painting I mentioned is indeed by Francisco Goya, but I got the name of the painting wrong. It is "Saturn Eating His Children" which you can see and read about [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son). It's still a perfect painting to accompany this, I think.
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Three poems by Stephen Crane
**"I Saw A Man Pursuing the Horizon"**
I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
"It is futile," I said,
"You can never --"
"You lie," he cried,
And ran on.
**"In the Desert"**
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter--bitter," he answered;
"But I like it
"Because it is bitter,
"And because it is my heart."
**"In Heaven"**
In Heaven,
Some little blades of grass
Stood before God.
"What did you do?"
Then all save one of the little blades
Began eagerly to relate
The merits of their lives.
This one stayed a small way behind
Ashamed.
Presently God said:
"And what did you do?"
The little blade answered: "Oh, my lord,
"Memory is bitter to me
"For if I did good deeds
"I know not of them."
Then God in all His splendor
Arose from His throne.
"Oh, best little blade of grass," He said.
Episode 137: Emily Dickinson's "A narrow Fellow in the Grass"
Episode 136: William Wordsworth's "Ode"
Episode 135: William Wordsworth's "Ode", sections 9-11
Episode 134: William Wordsworth's "Ode", sections 7-8
Episode 133: William Wordsworth's "Ode", sections 5-6
Episode 132: William Wordsworth's "Ode", sections 3-4
Episode 131: William Wordsworth's "Ode", sections 1 & 2
Episode 130: Walt Whitman's "Darest Thou Now, O Soul"
Episode 129: Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"
Episode 128: Poems by Robert Frost and Wendell Berry
Episode 127: Michael Blumenthal's "For My Son, Reading Harry Potter"
Episode 126: Wendell Berry's "Manifesto: Mad Farmer Liberation Front"
Episode 125: John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
Episode 124: Mary Oliver's "The Summer Day"
Episode 123: George Herbert's "Prayer (I)"
Episode 122: Sheenagh Pugh's "Sometimes"
Episode 121: Haiku by Bashō
Episode 120: Theodore Roethke's "Dolor"
Episode 119: Anne Bradstreet's "Upon my Son Samuel, His Going for England, November 6, 1657"
Episode 118: From Federico García Lorca's “Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias”
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