6/5/2023 0 Comments Horrible bear book![]() A bear accompanies the girl back to her home, so she can bury her father’s bones next to her mother’s, and helps her through the winter. Soon, the girl is officially alone, and it’s then, with no other ties to humanity left, that she moves still closer to nature and to joy. ![]() That belief is what gets him killed when he reaches into a darkened crevice looking for salvage and receives a nasty animal bite. He also sees value in the things left behind in the sunken place where the “others” once lived, which he and his daughter pass by on their journey to the sea for salt, convinced that they might be able to turn glass into arrowheads or find some amusement looking into a mirror. He carries on that legacy by reading books by Virgil, Homer, Hilda Doolittle, and Wendell Berry. The father once had his own parents who were still searching for “others,” and the hope of humanity’s continuance is alive in him. ![]()
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