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I find this photo of Wells Tower (Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned) and his dad in Greenland unduly amusing. Wells Towers’ essay about the trip, “Meltdown,” begins thus, which will convince you to read the whole thing: “In the Inuit village of Tasiilaq, on Greenland’s east coast, in a bar whose name, as far as I can tell, is Bar, people are enjoying themselves as though the world will end tomorrow. “There are maybe 30 folks in here, few of them women, nearly all of them catastrophically drunk. Two men who look fresh from a seal hunt are locked in a dance that is part boxer’s clinch, part jailhouse waltz. One of them falls. I can feel his skull hit the floor through the soles of my boots.” He goes on to describe how the ladies love Ed Tower. Read it here.

I find this photo of Wells Tower (Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned) and his dad in Greenland unduly amusing. Wells Towers’ essay about the trip, “Meltdown,” begins thus, which will convince you to read the whole thing:

“In the Inuit village of Tasiilaq, on Greenland’s east coast, in a bar whose name, as far as I can tell, is Bar, people are enjoying themselves as though the world will end tomorrow.

“There are maybe 30 folks in here, few of them women, nearly all of them catastrophically drunk. Two men who look fresh from a seal hunt are locked in a dance that is part boxer’s clinch, part jailhouse waltz. One of them falls. I can feel his skull hit the floor through the soles of my boots.”

He goes on to describe how the ladies love Ed Tower. Read it here.

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    Agreed: a great Outside piece.
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    Love
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