"I feel that I have lived on the edge even of my own life. I have made plans enough, but I see now that I have never lived by plan. Any more than if I had been a bystander watching me live my life, I don’t feel that I ever have been quite sure what was going on. Nearly everything that has happened to me has happened by surprise. All the important things have happened by surprise. And whatever has been happening usually has already happened before I have had time to expect it. The world doesn’t stop because you are in love or in mourning or in need of time to think. And so when I have thought I was in my story or in charge of it, I really have been only on the edge of it, carried along. Is this because we are all in an eternal story that is happening partly in time?"in Wendell Berry's Jayber Crow
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I believe I have this underlined in my copy of Jayber Crow. I want to read it again soon. Now that I've read all the others it will be interesting to see how different it will be the second time through.
Ok. I've memorized this one. Next?
Are you sure you've memorized it? There will be a test...:-)
Ok, well, maybe not.
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