Your assignment for today was to read Chapter 32 of The Dharma Bums and summarize it in one sentence. Below is my one-sentence summary -- post yours as a comment. I'd also love to see general comments about the chapter, or questions. Only 2 chapters to go!
The Dharma Bums Chapter 32 in one sentence:
With a couple more hitchhiking rides, Ray arrives at Marblemount Ranger Station to spend a week at fire school, meets oldtimer ranger Burnie Byers who goes on about what a great lookout Japhy had been, Ray buys groceries and rides up to Diablo Dam with Happy the muleskinner in a truck to begin the trek to his lookout cabin on Desolation Peak, Ray takes the boat to the foot of Ross Dam to meet Happy with the pack mules, after a restless sleep on the Forest Service floats and Happy chiding him that he should have brought brandy with him, Ray heads out on the barge, almost falls in the lake getting off the barge with his groceries, then heads out with several mules with supplies while he and Happy and assistant ranger Wally ride horses, they get above the timberline and the rain changes to hail, they reach the "almost Chinese cabin" and it is a mess of mouse chewings and turds, Happy cooks supper, they get a night's sleep, in the morning Happy gives Ray one last piece of advice about not "answerin" his own questions, the windows howl, Ray spends the first day cleaning the cabin, that night he meditates outside and hears the packrats scratching at the cellar door, he wakes up in the middle of the night and is frightened by Mount Hozomeen staring in his window (the fog had lifted) -- "What a mountain!"
Your next assignment is to read The Dharma Bums Chapter 33 and post a one-sentence summary.
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