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Show ee BACK ae OF BEYOND OPEN S EVEN et seer BOOKS | DAYS A WEEK: 9AM TO 10PM An unfortunate cover blurb from Tim Cahill announces that "If Ed ie were alive today, his name would be Rob Schultheis." But what really makes one hungry for his writing is the bold fact that his is a hearty, original voice, nourished by original perceptions, not the emaciated skeleton of some Abbey wannabe. His deconstruction of Telluride and the Four Corners Country in Fool’s Gold is a sumptuous feast. Jose’ Knighton FOOL'S GOLD... Lives, Loves, and Misadventures in the Four Corners Country By Rob Schultheis From Fool’s Gold... : Beauty and mystery swing and surround us, in forms ever more strange and unbelievable.. Travel southwest from Telluride and keep your eyes peeled. In time, you'll begin to see signs pointing toward the Underground: a Paul Klee trapdoor, a shadow ona cliff that turns into a hole, a tunnel leading down, down, DOWN...different entrances to the last world before this one, beneath the oil slick rainbows and accidental runestones of corrosion: ant trails, spider holes, Jungian bungholes, and rattlesnake railroads, leading back to that purer, wider world. This particular exit route begins with an insignificant-looking gully cutting into the dry cattle-trampled chaparral along the Utah-Arizona border. A plain old erosion gully with crumbling walls, nothing special. I wouldn't give it a second look, but we are following directions given to us by a die-hard desert-rat friend who knows all the secret routes out here. The gully descends slowly but steadily: first it’s six feet deep, then twelve, then twenty, thirty. The earth walls give way to sandstone; we’re walking on bedrock, carpeted by alluvial pebbles and sand. Fifty feet down, eighty, a hundred; the gorge remains narrow, barely ten feet across, the sky a skinny strip of blue high above. And it just ee going down, diving into the dark guts of the Underworld. 83 NORTH MAIN STREET P.O. BOX 387 MOAB, UT 84532 (435) 259-5154 WWW.MOAB.NET/BACKOFBEYOND MAPS GUIDEBOOKS GREEN TITLES WESTERN FICTION ao) COMPLETE WORKS OF EDWARD ABBEY POETRY. WOMENS USUES MYSTERY MAIL ORDERS SPECIAL ORDERS 800.700.2859 | ee |