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Merrill's choice of the hymn. That's right, Larry Lish said; his mother really cracked him up. MAYBE THE SHEPHERDS CAN JUST STARE AT THE 'PILLAR OF LIGHT. Under the drawing, Owen had written: OFTEN A SYMBOL OF REBORN IDEALISM, OR HOPE-OR AN EMBLEM OF IMMORTALITY.

I'LL KEEP THE DUMMY WITH ME, he said. HOW COULD THERE BE VIETNAMESE CHILDREN IN ARIZONA! Owen asked himself; he even asked God a question. Wheelwright would move to Maine. They would bury him in sawdust and lose him; they'd never find him.