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item's author: John Steinbeck
title: Appendix to the Log from the Sea of Cortez. "About Ed Ricketts".
publication: Penguin Books, 1995 edition. Pages 225-275.
description: Steinbeck writing "down things about Ed Ricketts"
notes/comments:

p. 228, Steinbeck writes "We have all tried to define Ed Ricketts with little success."...[and]........"Finally there is another reason to put Ed Ricketts down on paper. He will not die. He haunts the people who knew him. He is always present even in the moments when we feel his loss the most."

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