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W. O. Mitchell - Who Has Seen the Wind (1947)

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I would walk to the end of the street and over the prairie with the clickety grasshoppers bunging in arcs ahead of me, and I could hear the hum and twang of wind in the great prairie harp of telephone wires. Standing there with the total thrust of prairie sun on my vulnerable head, I guess I learned — at a very young age — that I was mortal.

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The soft and distant explosions of light were accompanied by a sound as of lumber being carelessly dropped.

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At the edge of the town they turned and stood looking out over the prairie to its far line where sheet lightning winked up the world's dark rim.

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And all about him was the wind now, a pervasive sighing trough great emptiness, as though the prairie itself was breathing in long gusting breaths, unhampered by the buildings of town, warm and living against his face and in his hair.

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Born: March 13, 1914
Died: February 25, 1998 (aged 83)
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