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How a West Texas Rodent Outsmarted Me
Man versus nature. Since the beginning of time, we humans have found ourselves engaged in an epic conflict, one that, if the opponent is grand enough (a hurricane, say, or a bear), teaches us something about ourselves and our place in the world. But what if the adversary is tiny and furry and eats his own poop?My wife and I live in Austin, but a few years ago we bought a little house in Marfa, a part of the state we’ve loved since the nineties. We go back and forth, spending a week at a time out there, and we’ve learned a lot about the desert and its complicated flora and fauna: the goathead weeds whose demonic burrs pierce the soles of our feet, the…The post How a West Texas Rodent Outsmarted Me appeared first on Texas Monthly.