Legends of the Fall

by Jim Harrison

After twenty years of studying them I am no longer able to read newspapers. Why? It’s because they no longer reflect the world I perceive. I will have to go along with the way I see it even if wrong. And

Finally, he was not the same as yesterday, and was at least infinitesimally different from a moment ago.

Not, he thought, that one couldn’t discriminate but it had grown boring to get in a dither over rehearsing opinions about everything. To the degree that he had gotten rid of this propensity he felt a bit lighter and more fluid.

He didn’t feel as hurt as he felt misplaced with what remained of his sense of family.