At night we watched Oak Island, a show where Canadian men dug forever in the mud. There was a legend that the Grail had gone to this place—the Grail never went to, like, New York. It went where people believed in it most, where people were willing to dig, and where Canada was not populated with identical interior decorators named Jnoathan, it was populated with amateur archaeologists. They scooped forever in the mud—sometimes they x-rayed the mud, as if it were a body—and when they found a button, they partied for days. To have found actual treasure, let alone the Grail, would have upset them.
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