I am a pumpjack—dutifully plumbing the depths of the earth and pouring forth its bounty. I am a conduit for the land and for the chthonic forces that pervade my environment. My task is to draw the universal from the particular, to take the rugged frontier and reveal in it something true, beautiful, and good. Subscribe to find what wisdom lay beneath the earth.
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I am a pumpjack—I do unto man what man does unto the earth. I find essence in accident, the universal in the particular, and the wisdom buried deep in the earth.