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Show THE ZEPHYRAPRIL 89 nights were long, thought and the high Mountain freeze and deeper into our adobe walls, forcing us to close off aost of the house and retreat, rooa by rooa, to the shelter of the aain salon, where a fire of broken kitchen chairs, or splintered flooring froa an unused back rooa, was always blazing cheerily in the huge though inefficient fireplace. We endured. The books disappeared. Then the drapes. Then the obscure old paintings in their gilded fraaes, the oaken table and chairs froa the unneeded dining rooa, the chief kitchen appliances, gas range, freezer, hot water heater, refrigerator-- none of then of auch use to us in those long aonths when the teaperature never rose above 32 degrees Fahrenheit. The house acquired an austere, bare look appropriate to its aonkish inhabitants, an ascetic and nedieval aabience, nicely iaproving the general decor. No one objected. Our Nobody ooaplained. Decenber becane frozen peace renal ned undisturbed. Frigid January, gelid and unrelenting February. I scribbled ay stories. Frank contenplated eternity. Heraan Rednick covered the bare white walls with his lurid aurals of erotic and profane love. He had appeared at nidnight on New Tear's Eve, Rednick? announcing hiaself with a thunderous barrage of blows on the front door. I opened the door. This total stranger stood therb, a silly grin on his drunken face. "I 'a an artist too," he A explained, then buckled to his knees and flopped inside. blizzard whirled behind hin. I dragged hin into the house; he stayed for three aonths. In late March cane the warning telegraa froa Crete: PAGE 9 The sank deeper tongue-in-groo- ve DON & KAY SWASEY vQ)hop 57 North Main Moab, Utah 84532 1 A Scrimshaw Engraving Jewelry Turquoise Dinosaur Bone Souvenirs Jewelry Repairs Let us be your silversmith Custom Orders Welcome 801-259-53- 60 ED: DIVORCED AGAIN. BARBONS APPROACHING SALE. SANTA FE. TIDY UP QUICK PLEASE. HOUSE FOR URGENT. JOHN. Barbons? Yes, the parents of John's Swiss wife, the actual owners of our magnificent adobe estate, were coning to salvage the debris of an inpossible aarriage. Heirs to a Merchant's fortune, they deplored waste, though a continent away. I impounded Rednick 's brushes, aroused the Yogi froa his We threw our few belongings into ay antique dogmatic slumbers. Chevrolet pickup, hacked the ice froa the windshield, thawed the motor over a low fire, and made a clean escape to Mexico one day before the vengeful Swiss arrived. Twenty years later my friend John De Puy and I are still Frank disappeared into India, Rednick into New good friends. York, but Debris and I remain, as always, here, now. Santa Fe also remains where it has been, frozen in its warp of time, surrounded by the besieging armies of 20th Century madness. Just as the old adobe mansion on Palace Avenue survived my earnest care, so will the ancient mud city of the Holy Faith outlast these transient, temporal, illusory barbarians of today. old Spanish trail camera dennis sweeney 29 e. center 259-500- 9 kodak poster special blow up your friends" 20x30 12x18 ... $15.95 ... $12.95 from any 35mm slide or print Edward Abbey is the author of The Fool's Progress. Desert the Solitaire. The Journey Hone and other books. Hayduke Lives!, sequel to his classic 1975 novel. The Monkey Wrench Ganz . will be published in the Spring of 1990. zeke and maralee francisf Four Corners Design ALL-AMERIC- AN (across from the post office) AGENCY 505 No. Main 259-649- 3 Meet Our Real Estate Team Doug McElhney, owner Delbert & Glenna Oliver Norma Nunn Ray Tibbetts Julie Bierschied Janice Shupe Randy Day 259-687- 8 259-737- 0 259-727- 5 259-636- 1 259-567- 0 259-749- 7 259-628- 3 six-col- or capacity, direct screening oldest irt shop in moab estb. 1980 serving the jeep safaris needs for nine years t-sh- thm irt |