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Okay, so Steinbeck quotes it is. Yes, he wrote beautiful novels, but he was also a glorious non-fiction writer. In his intro to The Log from the Sea of Cortez, he writes about his desire for the book—that their observation of objective facts be tempered with an even larger truth of individual experience and meaning.
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“We said, ‘Let’s go wide open. Let’s see what we see, record what we find, and not fool ourselves with conventional scientific strictures. We could not observe a completely objective Sea of Cortez anyway, for in that lonely and uninhabited Gulf our boat and ourselves would change it the moment we entered.’”
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Just read East of Eden and loved this passage (and the whole book)
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This is my favorite part of the log from the Sea of Cortez
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Steinbeck is 100% on my favorite list. All of it.
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