Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly

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long one about Rita climbing up Mount Kilimanjaro with a small tour group composed of a few white people like her and a ridiculously disporportional number of porters. they make it to the top, but some of the porters die on the way.


        Eggers, D. (2005). Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly. In Eggers, D. How We Are Hungry. Vintage, pp. 141-200

traveling from place to place, especially working or based in various places for relatively short periods

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she feared he would use the word peripatetic, and soon enough he did

—p.175 by Dave Eggers

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she feared he would use the word peripatetic, and soon enough he did

—p.175 by Dave Eggers

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6 years, 11 months ago

(noun) a fissile rock that is formed by the consolidation of clay, mud, or silt, has a finely stratified or laminated structure, and is composed of minerals essentially unaltered since deposition / (noun) a crude dark oil obtained from oil shale by heating / (noun) a rock (as shale) from which oil can be recovered by distillation

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through a field of shale

—p.186 by Dave Eggers

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through a field of shale

—p.186 by Dave Eggers

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How We Are Hungry
by Dave Eggers

How We Are Hungry
by Dave Eggers

How We Are Hungry
by Dave Eggers