From Voyageurs National Park on FB:
From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
And then right after that the goddamn Mamluks hit us right in the Ayn Jalut.
ReplyDeleteYou know, if you do some of the really advanced Buddhist-Tantric or Hermetic practices for unlocking memory, you start to remember 'past lives'. Regardless of whether or not you believe these are a real thing, if you do these practices you end up having the effect of absolutely feeling the same way about your memories of the 1880s or the 1540s or Song China or whatever as you do about distant childhood memories. It's trippy.
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