For starters, had doctors or medicine forced him to live longer, he would’ve despised what the world around him became, because, among other things, he hated chain stores, pharmaceuticals, and bankers. He claimed to have spent one hour in 1948 trying to think like a banker and he said it was the closest he’d come to suicide. To him, a farm wasn’t a thumbtack on a wall map or a spot on a supply chain. Some years, shit just happens, and bankers don’t like it when shit happens, but they never cared to understand why it did, and why sometimes it had to. If he had more patience with people who had
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