LOINCLOTH MAN
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LOINCLOTH MAN
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CHAPTER 9:
LOINCLOTH MAN
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
—André Gide; French author, Nobel Prize winner, fearless self-
explorer
Every May I go backpacking through the desert wilderness areas of southeast
Utah with two longtime friends of mine. It’s one of the most magnificent and
bizarre places I’ve ever been: giant, jagged, obscenely pink ridges of rock jut out
of the ground like huge slabs of raw meat; white, yellow, and purple towers of
sandstone stretch and twist into sculptures made of taffy; deep cracks in the
earth’s surface form cathedral-like slot canyons whose walls, smoothed over
from flash floods and sandstorms, change colors from moment to moment as the
sun’s rays shift through the narrow opening high above.