Agnar Mykle called Christmas the Feast
of Bad Conscience. He wrote Lasso Round the Moon
and The Song of the Red Ruby. Tannanarivo. Atacama.
Ash Burlefoot, left-handed violinist, and his kid brother Balder.
Lowell's hunting safety course is he lets a kid shoot a sapling
at close range, then says, "See that? That's what a gun will do
to your foot." Balder is teaching Cale to hunt. And cook.
Squirrel stew. With rice. Owen and Andy Dye lived on
squirrels and rice when they played with the Gillis Brothers.
Pond turtles. Granny Brown used to crack the skulls and eat
the brains. She said, about the Great Depression, "Weren't no such
thing, we always lived that way." I identify with Seabiscuit.
Apropos of The Depression.