The tree of life by M. David Detweiler

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As we climbed to the final tee I noticed she was mov- Page 3 ing faster, no doubt to get the suspense over with one way or the other, and we stood back, way back, from him. The blade of his three iron flashed against the sky and he stood watching his ball's flight, leaning forward, hands high, both rows of knuckles pointing (at least he was trying to point them, per a tip he'd read) at his left ear, looking, as he swayed, less like a golfer than a nightshirted explorer peeking around a castle corner by the light of a candelabrum held aloft with both hands.

He did get a glimpse sometimes, scribbling at one of his desks in that raftered room, or on a scorecard while waiting to hit, or at a cafe down in the seaside university town where he taught, or inching through the imitation-velour-roped maze of the airline line or waking, overheated, in his bed in a lonely hour to paw for the lampswitch and his pad and pen. At the end I would see him wild with his mind's desire, shag-bearded, the friendly brown eyes crazed and lost, white-robed Sufis whirling in the yard, this raftered den, the whole bungalow, jammed full of strange new machines and people.

The lenses of his glasses are round, his surprised eyes round, the expressive small lips sensitively, perpetually worried. A second chin. The goggly, worried eyes. Eden imagines cartoon commas of sweat flying out in dynamic halo from around his little brother's amazed expression. "Come on kid, we shoulda done this years ago, but you were never interested. We'll catch you a trout. " Eden is shown the rod, and its uses are elementally explained to him. There is neither unfriendliness nor gentleness in the way little brother guides absentminded ocean-liner big brother down the bank and in.

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