At the Jim Bridger: Stories by Ron Carlson

Author:Ron Carlson [Carlson, Ron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: USA
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2002-03-31T13:00:00+00:00

It was the first assembly we’d ever attended, and it would also be the last. Our custom was to spend assembly time alone in the middle of the football bleachers. Evil Eye would stretch out over three or four seats and set his hand out as if to hold the gymnasium and all of its occupants, and he would say, “Did I tell you about growing up in Orkney, about going to high school in America?”

“You did,” I’d always say. “We’re still here.”

His face would roll to mine and he’d smile as if at a child and say, “My dear Rick, that would be the wrong answer.” And then he’d begin what I see now was a kind of rambling poem about being seventeen, a word he said was a central part of the code of the unknown, and he would invert himself so his head was far below and his magnificent feet were in my face, and he would go on and offer me all the advice I would need if I was going to be a writer.

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