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2021 Readathon #1: Miles of Pages
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Feb 18, 2021 05:31AM
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Sunday - 168 pagesMonday - 24 pages
Tuesday - 62
Wednesday - 150 pages &
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Wednesday: 241 pages and 3 hours audio
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Thursday: 159
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Friday - 231
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We had something of a change in plans, and so I have not been able to write to you as I wished. Forgive me and know that my thoughts were constantly with you. As we were preparing to set out from the second camp, we received word over the wireless of great storms that would be coming up from the south in a few days time. The captain decided to immediately send the ship back down river to regather the supplies from the first camp and then circle round the continent to the north where it would, god willing meet up with our party again.
In order to travel as lightly as possible, the expedition team was forced to make do with only the most essential equipment. You will hardly believe it Darling when I tell you that I had to argue most passionately for the keeping of my notebooks and specimen containers. How could I to be of any use to the Society if I could collect specimens? I almost fancy I heard someone say that perhaps I myself was not essential equipment. Such impertinence!
In the end, I, my notebooks, and my specimen cases were allowed to come. It has been an egregiously difficult journey for the dunes were constantly shifting, and the heat is intense to say the very least. You am sure would have born the burden much more graciously than I. We travelled mostly by night, and the stars are as dazzling as your eyes. The longer I have been gone, the more I long for you. Once I return home, I shall never leave your side again.
When we finally reached the much sought after oasis, I was in a heaven only to be matched with the ecstasy of your presence. The moths and butterflies! Oh Darling, the moths and butterflies! There are here more species than I have ever before encountered in one location. I have completely filled my specimen cases and even still I have to leave this place with mere drawings and descriptions of much of what I have seen. There may be whole new genera here that have yet to be entered in the annals of scientific knowledge. My Darling, we shall have to convert the attic into an additional study for I know I have found my life's work ahead of me.
After only all too brief a period of stay, we had to journey onward to the north. Luckily we encountered a caravan and this section of the trip went by much more quickly thanks to their guidance. I now write to you aboard ship again and we depart for home tomorrow. I can hardly believe that since last I left this cabin I have travelled 9630 miles. How short a time it has been and yet what sights I have seen, all to be eclipsed by the joy of seeing your face again.
In the greatest anticipation,
Your Most Devoted Lepidopterist
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Friday: 347 pages
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Saturday - 144
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