Moses walked up to one of the men and watched, transfixed, as the potter dumped a wad of pale gray mud onto the plate before him. He then kicked at a wheel under the table with one leg. As the surface of the table spun, the man put his hands on the mass of clay. Moses watched as the mud kept changing. Until that moment, he’d thought that he understood the nature of dirt. He had worked in the fields, played with dirt clods, and pulled crayfish out of the mud. He understood that food grew out of the dirt, and that critters could live in the earth, and that dried mud could be formed into shapes,
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