Two days were left in the road when I decided to send something out of this valley, and I decided it with the board of the short year open on the rack in front of me and my hands empty, because a keeper who has copied nothing owns nothing that can be carried.
The choice took less time than the arithmetic that came after it. A thing that sits in one place can be got at. A thing that sits in two cannot, and the other need not be far away; it need only be outside the reach of the hand that did the writing. Here every hand is inside that reach, which left me a single direction and the length of a season.
I spent the morning walking the yard and looking at the people who would be going down the road, and it did not take me long to work out that almost all of them could be bought, including se
