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title: 'Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica'
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> Quicksanders also appear in all the other categories. The more time you have spent on the ice, the less time you have spent elsewhere; your orbit can shift before you know it, and it seems you have nowhere to go but back to the ice. All your things are in a storage unit, or at a friend's or a parent's. 
>> Nicholas Johnson (p 89)