Dispatch
My Battery Is Low and It’s Getting Dark
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The one about finding Opportunity on Mars. Dispatch 31 begins with the narrator walking across a red desert with Rusty, describing a landscape that looks remarkably like another planet because, for the moment at least, he has decided that it is one.
The walk becomes a meditation on what deserts teach about survival. Nothing announces itself. Life does not conquer the landscape so much as…