Period 8 (2013)
“Logs may come later, but he’s buried in teachers’ meetings and a damage-control local news conference.
Paulie lays his wetsuit out on the dock, thinking about Hannah and Mary Wells and how his life has taken a turn for the bizarre. A paraphrased H. L. Mencken quotation he has taped to his bedroom wall pops into his head: “For every complex question there’s a simple answer—and it’s wrong.” He thinks too about All the Pretty Horses, a novel he read in English this year. The main character, John G...rady Cole, says, “There ain’t but one truth. The truth is what happened.” There was a time when Paulie thought it was as simple as that: learn the truth and tell it. It started with a Sunday school lesson back in elementary school, one taught by a kind of hippie throwback youth minister who believed finding the truth and exposing it was Jesus’s modus operandi. You wouldn’t tell some poor kid that you recognized the shirt he was wearing because it used to belong to you, or chide someone for some other reality that could only hurt.MoreLess
Paulie lays his wetsuit out on the dock, thinking about Hannah and Mary Wells and how his life has taken a turn for the bizarre. A paraphrased H. L. Mencken quotation he has taped to his bedroom wall pops into his head: “For every complex question there’s a simple answer—and it’s wrong.” He thinks too about All the Pretty Horses, a novel he read in English this year. The main character, John G...rady Cole, says, “There ain’t but one truth. The truth is what happened.” There was a time when Paulie thought it was as simple as that: learn the truth and tell it. It started with a Sunday school lesson back in elementary school, one taught by a kind of hippie throwback youth minister who believed finding the truth and exposing it was Jesus’s modus operandi. You wouldn’t tell some poor kid that you recognized the shirt he was wearing because it used to belong to you, or chide someone for some other reality that could only hurt.MoreLess
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