Daniel Alarcón
speaker
2,010 appearances
36 recordings
11 series
first heard Feb 2022
last heard 10 Jul
Daniel Alarcón’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Old growth in patches.
It is genuinely beautiful country, and it is genuinely empty.
And both of those things were on my mind the whole way up.
The beauty, and the emptiness, because they're the same fact looked at from two sides.
We got there a little after noon.
The cabin looked the way it had always looked.
One story, hand-framed, a steep metal roof for the snow load, a covered porch across the front, a stovepipe, and a single back window that Lowell had cut himself into the rear wall to watch the drainage.
There was a woodshed off to the side, full and dry, split and stacked the way Lowell stacked everything, which is to say, correctly.
the man had been dead for two and a half weeks and the woodpile was still squared off true at every corner wesley got the key from the lockbox the lawyer had told us about and we went in and that's when we found the tape i should describe the tape carefully because the tape is the whole front half of this
All through the cabin, stuck to walls and beams in the edges of shelves, and the frames of the windows in the door, were strips of ordinary cream-colored masking tape, the kind you buy in a hardware store for painting trim.
On each strip Lowell had written a short instruction in black marker in his blocky engineer's hand, the letters all capitals, the way he wrote everything.
They weren't reminders in the normal sense.
They weren't buy more propane or check the flu.
They were rules, and they were strange.
The one over the light switch by the door said, keep porch light off after midnight.
The one on the front of the wood stove said do not burn green wood, ever.
And the second one said not even a crack.
There were a dozen others.
Don't whistle outside after dark.
Keep the salt box full.
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