How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
It was that summer of 1916 when my dad took me and my little brothers down home to see his folks. Time has a different shape in Grand Tower, Illinois, and so when we got there, Dad was "young Bill," and we were young Bill's boys. (15.1)
What shape is time in Grand Tower, exactly? A square? A triangle? An octagon? We think a circle makes the most sense because clocks are circles. Until we see a better argument, we're going with that one.
Quote #8
There we sat, both of us barefoot, while she brought back the old times for me. She handed over the past like a parcel, seizing these days to do it. (15.9)
We prefer to get cookies and candy, like Calinda's homemade pralines, in a parcel, but the past is okay, we guess.
Quote #9
At first I didn't know how to listen to tales that old. But we began to edge across the years toward each other, Grandma Tilly and I. (15.11)
Howard, if you don't know how to listen to stories from the Civil War, you are going to really struggle with Beowulf, not to mention The Odyssey. How long ago does he think the Civil War was? Or, to think about this differently, why does the Civil War seem so freaking far away to him?