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“Young people just now starting out in camping probably have no idea that it wasn't but a couple of decades ago that people went camping expecting to be miserable. Half the fun of camping in those days was looking forward to getting back home. When you did get back home you prolonged the enjoyment of your trip by telling all your friends how miserable you had been. The more you talked about the miseries of life in the woods, the more you wanted to get back out there and start suffering again. Camping was a fine and pleasant misery.”

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Book:"A Fine and Pleasant Misery", "They Shoot Canoes Don't They?", "Never Sniff a Gift Fish", & "The Grasshopper Trap"
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"A Fine and Pleasant Misery", "They Shoot Canoes Don't They?", "Never Sniff a Gift Fish", & "The Grasshopper Trap"

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