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Freaking Jayber

“So it is that the life force may take possession of a man—so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.”

The themes of both water and home intertwined throughout literature. Reminds me of baptism. It’s like God knew what he was doing, or authors such as Berry and Robinson and Dillard etc picked up on something innate in us. Water signifies a coming home.

Jayber Crow is seeping in theology. I’m stopping every other sentence with thoughts I can’t quite form!