I'm finished reading Wendell Berry novels, which might be a relief to some, but I did like this little passage from a short story called A Burden, in the collection of short stories A Place in Time. If you've ever been to a funeral of someone of doubtful destiny you might relate to this, usually unspoken, awkwardness. Wheeler is actually a very good man, who had gone to many great lengths to retrieve Uncle Peach from his fits of self-destruction, and he just can't help saying what many a person has probably thought after a funeral, when a preacher has perhaps been more certain than evidence would allow. Though of course we know that grace has lifted a might burden for all those God saves. (I've changed the American punctuation, because I can't stand it - is that allowed in quotes?):
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I'm finished reading Wendell Berry novels, which might be a relief to some, but I did like this little passage from a short story called A Burden, in the collection of short stories A Place in Time. If you've ever been to a funeral of someone of doubtful destiny you might relate to this, usually unspoken, awkwardness. Wheeler is actually a very good man, who had gone to many great lengths to retrieve Uncle Peach from his fits of self-destruction, and he just can't help saying what many a person has probably thought after a funeral, when a preacher has perhaps been more certain than evidence would allow. Though of course we know that grace has lifted a might burden for all those God saves. (I've changed the American punctuation, because I can't stand it - is that allowed in quotes?):