“On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.”

—  Norman Mailer

Harry Hubbard, in Harlot's Ghost : A Novel (1991)

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