#719 If It Keeps on Raining- Jon McGregor
A Man wakes and looks out his door. He watches the river flow by. His manner is slow, contemplative, un-urgent.
“He stands there each morning and he looks at the river, the fields, the sky. He tries to estimate what the weather will do for the rest of the day. He makes some decisions about the work he is going to do on the treehouse or the raft. He thinks about making breakfast. He thinks about going to look for more wood.”
You get the feeling that he once lived a fast-paced life and reacted badly to it. He has taken refuge in this cabin by the river. Now he prepares for the coming flood. He doesn’t now when it will happen, but he knows it will. He will save himself, and whatever innocence he can along with him.
“But there will be time when it doesn’t pass. When the clouds gather and don’t pass away, and rain pours endlessly upon the earth. And some will be prepared and some will not.”
Beautiful, biblical, poetic.
Notable Passage: “Some people deserve it, what will come.”
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