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Set against the turmoil of the World War II, A World Lost is just one of the classic chapters in Berry's Port William series. The summer of 1944 finds nine-year-old Andy Catlett in that very town in Kentucky, occupied more with watching meadowlarks and dipping into the nearby spring than... read more
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“and then the day seemed to collapse around me into what it had become.There was no place where what had happened had not happened.”
Andy Catlett 9 yrs old -
“for a long time after Uncle Andrew's death,when the phone would ring early in the morning I would be out of bed and halfway down the stairs before I remembered his absence and felt the day suddenly change around me,withdrawing forever what it might have been.”
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must begin and end. A life, on the contrary, would be impossible to fix in time, for it does not begin within itself, and it does not end.
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The dead remain in thought as much alive as they ever were, and yet increased in stature and grown remarkably near.
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They had been spoiled by generations of men who had indulged and promoted their helplessness; he had been spoiled by women who had allowed him to charm them into acceptance of his inborn unstoppability.
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That light can come into this world only as love, and love can enter only by suffering. Not enough light has ever reached us here among the shadows, and yet I think it has never been entirely absent.
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And it came to me all in a feeling how everything fitted together, the place and ourselves and the animals and the tools, and how the sky held us. I saw how sweetly we were enabled by the land and the animals and our few simple tools.
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Her need for love isolated and estranged her from everybody who might have loved her, and from everybody who did.
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forgiveness and its beauty, and are consoled. In it they are loved completely, even as they have been, and so are changed into what they could not have been but what, if they could have imagined it, they would have wished to be.
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But now I have been here a fair amount of time, and slowly I have learned that my true home is not just this place but is also that company of immortals with whom I have lived here day by day. I live in their love, and I know something of the cost. Sometimes in the darkness of my own shadow I know that I could not see at all were it not for this old injury of love and grief, this little flickering lamp that I have watched beside for all these years.
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IT WAS EARLY JULY, bright and hot; I was staying with my grandmother and grandfather Catlett.
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- Wendell Berry (Author)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Washington
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Publication Date: 1996
ISBN: 1887178228
Page Count: 151
Publisher: Washington
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Publication Date: 1996
ISBN: 1887178228
Page Count: 151
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- Dewey: 813
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