“The provincial who cultivates only his roots is in peril, potato-like, of becoming more root than plant. The man who cuts his roots away and denies they were ever connected with him withers into half a man.”
--John Graves, Goodbye to a River I have been re-reading “Goodbye to a River” recently. I need to do a full essay on it, but I have been thinking about this...
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