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Leif Enger _ Peace Like a River
Once in school, going down to lunch from our third-floor classroom, Valentino Vail had leaned over the banister without warning and loosed a cataract of orange vomit. The stairway was the usual open stack and Valentino's breakfast just dropped forever, three stories down, touching a good number of lives as it rocketed past and hitting the basement tile with a sound zookeepers must hear sometimes, around the elephants.
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Leif Enger _ Peace Like a River
was working the cold up
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Leif Enger _ Peace Like a River
Sleep that day was a warm pool into which I dove and stayed, sporadically lifting my head to sense the world.
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Leif Enger _ Peace Like a River
Even as we sat, prying lids off milk bottles, we could hear the persecuted cooks banging around back in the kitchen, grandmas barking at each other, preparing the daily grotesque.
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Leif Enger _ Peace Like a River
No miracle happens without a witness. Someone to declare, Here's what I saw. Here's how it went. Make of it what you will.
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Leif Enger _ Peace Like a River
What mortal creations are language and memory!
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Leif Enger _ Peace Like a River
My sister, Swede, who often sees to the nub, offered this: People fear miracles because they fear being changed-though ignoring them will change you also.
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Leif Enger _ Peace Like a River
Of course vindictiveness is an ugly trait and, yes, I do mean to forgive all these nice deserters; I mean, eventually, to say, to their ghosts if not their living faces, It's all right. I understand. I might've done the same. Not yet, though. Let me bear witness first. Two
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Leif Enger _ Peace Like a River
I don't have the gift to aptly describe the rest of that evening, except to say it was a Christmas Eve beyond all gasping wishes,
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Leif Enger _ Peace Like a River
one of her recent letters asks, Is it hubris to believe we all live epics? {Perhaps it is, but I suspect she's not actually counting on me for an answer.}
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Leif Enger _ Peace Like a River
Waltzer was stirred by the boy's assurance under stress. Waltzer believed in invented destiny and invented some then and there.
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Leif Enger _ Peace Like a River
Days later under northern skies he understood that its presence in the pickup only made him heartsick and he unloaded it cheap to the farmer, who, though confused by Spanish, understood burdens and the need to escape them.
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