“Get up and move, then.' But I told her it want no luck in it, because the Lord put roads for travelling: why He laid them down flat on the earth. When He aims for something to always be a-moving, He makes it longways, like a road or a horse or a wagon, but when He aims it for something to stay put, He makes it up-and-down ways, like a tree or a man. And so he never aimed for folks to live on a road, because which gets there first, I says, the road or the house? [...] Because if He aimed for a man to always be a-moving and going somewheres else, wouldn't He a put him longways on his belly, like a snake? It stands to reason He would.”