Barrett’s Reviews > Cuyahoga > Status Update

“A wood heart will pump wood blood and soon enough you are wood all over.”

“October encourages a bird to abscond from Ohio in favor of warmer air. By that month’s end, most every winged thing obliges, excepting for chickens and finches and the idiot geese that emigrate from Canada in great caravans.”

“I tend to agree with Ozias that the devil is a white man. Not because the devil is clever or the devil were once an angel — though both are true enough. Our devil is a white man because the devil looks like what you seen in a mirror-glass.”

“Dog were always sharpening a matter down to a point, like a [grave] marker tells the life underneath in a word or two.”

“[Even] you would see the wrong in TWO BRIDGES OR NONE. You cannot count to two without passing through one. Two makes more than none. If two bridges is preferred to none, then one bridge is halfway good.

Unless one bridge offends your pride.”

“Our days proceeded somewhat like birds. You cannot rely on birds for any exact behavior, but you seen patterns in their doing.”