The (Other) You by Joyce Carol Oates

Author:Joyce Carol Oates
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 2020-12-14T00:00:00+00:00

2.

“We will give a dinner party. It’s been too long.”

“God, yes! But better hurry.”

This is a joke. A mild joke, as Andrew’s jokes go. Still, Luce winces. For perhaps it isn’t funny, entirely. Luce resents such humor from her husband, at such a precarious time in all of their lives.

In the distance, on the farther side of Vedders Hill, a rolling sound of thunder.

Putting her in mind of the thunderous game of ninepins played by the demonic old Dutch-colonial dwarfs in the legend of Rip Van Winkle. For on their mountainside above Hazelton-on-Hudson they are living in what was once the Kaatskill Mountains, now the Catskills; in an earlier incarnation, as the Dutch village of Vedders, Hazelton-on-Hudson was likely the setting for the story of Rip Van Winkle’s near-fatal enchantment more than two hundred fifty years before.

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