This perhaps was what lay at the root of the hysteria surrounding what came to be known as the Gold Rush: Men desiring a feeling of fortune; the unlucky masses hoping to skin or borrow the luck of others, or the luck of a destination. A seductive notion, and one I thought to be wary of. To me, luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.
Patrick deWitt...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I emerged victorious.
Patrick deWittI saw my bulky person in the windows of the passing storefronts and wondered, when will that man there find himself to be loved?
Patrick deWittThe creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.
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