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Daily Press  \n“You’re hooked, you feel every cut, grope up every cliʃ, swallow water with every spill of the canoe, sweat with every draw of the bowstring. Wholly absorbing [and] dramatic.”  \n—Harpers Magazine  \n“How a man acts when shot by an arrow, what it feels like to scale a cliʃ orto capsize, the ironic psychology of fear: these things are conveyed with remarkable descriptive writing.”  \n—The New Republic  \n“Freshly and intensely alive … with questions that haunt modern urban man.”  \n—Southern Review  \n“A ɹne and honest book that hits the reader’s mind with the sting of a baseball just caught in the hand.”  \n—The Nation  \n“His language has a descriptive power not often matched in contemporary American writing.”  \n—Time  \n“A harrowing trip few readers will forget.”  \n—Asheville Citizen-Times  \nBOOKS BY JAMES DICKEY  \nPOETRY  \nThe Whole Motion Buckdancer’s Choice The Eagles Mile NOVELS  \nDeliverance Alnilam  \nTo the White Sea CRITICISM  \nAND NONFICTION  \nBabel to Byzantium Jericho  \nSelf Interviews Sorties Wayfarer  \nTo  \nEdward L. King and Albert Braselton, companions  \nIL existe à la base de la vie humaine, un principe d’insuɽsance.  \nGEORGES BATAILLE  \nThe pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwelleth in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?  \nOBADIAH, verse 3  \nContents  \nBefore  \nSeptember 14th  \nSeptember 15th  \nSeptember 16th  \nAfter  \nBefore  \nIT UNROLLED SLOWLY,  \nsnapping back  \nforced to show its colors, curling and whenever one of us turned loose. The  \nwhole land was very tense until we put our four steins on its cornersand laid the river out to run for us through the mountains 150 miles north. Lewis’ hand took a pencil and marked out a small strong X ina place where some of the green bled away and the paper changed with high ground, and began to work downstream, northeast to southwest through the printed woods. I watched the hand rather than the location, for it seemed to have power over the terrain, and when it stopped for Lewis’ voice to explain something, it was as though all streams everywhere quit running, hanging silently where they were to let the point be made. The pencil turned over and pretended to sketch in with the eraser an area that must have been around ɹfty miles long, through which the river hooked and cramped.  \n“When they take another survey and rework this map,” Lewis said, “all this in here will be blue. The dam at Aintry has already been started, and when it’s ɹnished next spring the river will backup fast. This whole valley will be under water. But right now it’s wild. And I mean wild; it looks like something up in Alaska. We really ought to go up there before the real estate people get hold of it and make it over into one of their heavens.”  \nI leaned forward and concentrated down into the invisible shape he had drawn, trying to see the changes that would come, the nighttime rising of dammed water bringing a new lake up with its choice lots, its marinas and beer cans, and also trying to visualize the land as Lewis said it was at that moment, unvisited and free. I breathed in and out once, consciously; my body, particularly the back and arms, felt ready for something like this. I looked around  \nthe bar and then back into the map, picking up the river where we would enter it. A little way to the southwest the paper blanched.“Does this mean it’s higher here?” I asked.  \n“Yes,” Lewis said, looking quickly at me to see if I saw he was being tolerant.  \nAh, he’s going to turn this into something, I thought. A lesson. Amoral. A life principle. A Way.  \n“It must run through a gorge or something” was all he said though.“But we can get through that in a day, easy. 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