#103- Filial Piety in Wendell Berry's “Pray Without Ceasing”
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The End of the He Was Not in His Life Now
"This is about shame. Luckily, because he'd always would have been the guy that nearly lost his farm," she says. "If you work doubly hard, they don't say this, but he's probably going to bend to borrow money." He doesn't see any way out. Well he sees a way out, but it isn't a way out. So I don't want to read it twice. But he figures out what he's going to do. Takes the pistol down from the little shelf above the door frame and his lady folks say, now now put that away. You ain't got a useful world for that.
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