Maybe we were the Diggers of literature.

“His clock was set on pioneer time. He met trains that had not yet arrived, he w…”

“Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only …”

“To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.”

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wil…”