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Burning Man

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“Trying to explain what Burning Man is to someone who has never been to the event is a bit like trying to explain what a particular color looks like to someone who is blind.”

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Burning Man was started spontaneously in San Francisco in 1986 by Larry Harvey and Jerry James as an act of what they have come to call “radical self-expression.” The first Burning Man was just that—a group of people gathering around an effigy of a man, which was subsequently burned on the beach.

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