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Tango0130 Jul 2020 3:41 p.m. PST

""No matter what they came to, they went right on. They were crawling up one side of the barn and down the other. Crawling West. They crawled straight into the creek, never stopped. They crawled into it and drowned till they clogged it up and the others crawled across on their backs. Molly…would they do something like that without knowing why? I tell you they were bound to go West. All the powers of Hell couldn't 've stopped them." He and Molly looked at each other for a long moment…Neither of them could say what they felt. The grasshoppers--crawling into the creek and drowning 'till the others crossed on their backs. Grasshoppers, going West--like the railroads, like the people, like cities and settled lands and law and government. Yet grasshoppers were as alien, as indifferent to human beings than human fate itself."…"


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Wackmole930 Jul 2020 4:22 p.m. PST

The Horrible part is Biologists in Montana are finding frozen ones in Ice fields and want to bring them back.

Tango0131 Jul 2020 12:37 p.m. PST

No!….

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