FACT AND PARENTHESIS
It's so silly isn't it? How we grown men take up trout fishing not simply to pursue trout but to find some place, some special place, where we feel at ease, a place to belong. God loves a man that smells of trout water and mountain meadows, cheap whiskey and branch water. Which way's heaven? Follow the trail and keep close to the stream. ? Arby Mulligan, Hymn No. 1 (the only hymn) of the Owl Creek Gap Church of Universal Harmony, in On The Spine of Time by Harry Middleton.