#103- Filial Piety in Wendell Berry's “Pray Without Ceasing”
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The Power of the Air
This is a story being told by Margaret. She's not there, but she's probably talked with all these ladies over the years and he let that harness fall. This is about Port William. More energy was generated than the community. Then the work of the community could consume and the surplus energy often went into fighting. There had been cuttings and shootings enough, but usually the fighting was more primitive in the combatant simply through whatever projectiles came to hand. Coron Cobs, snowballs, green walnuts,. rocks and the previous winter, a young culture by the name of Burley claimed that he had an eye blackened by a frozen horse thrown as far as he could determine
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