Quote of the Day 9/14/08 (Spots of Time: 2 of 3)

Poets talk about "spots of time," but it is really fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone.

in Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It

3 comments:

wcc said...

my favorite line, ostensibly about fishing, is

Power comes not from power everywhere but from knowing where to put it on.

JPB said...

Ohhh ... great line! Is that from A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT? It has been two or three years since I last read it.

wcc said...

page 4 in my copy; excellent story