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SC 10.1-Front Porch 2/26/04 4:06 PM Page 1 We all know that hunting is a major theme in American literature. Think about Melville and his whale, Faulkner and his bear, Hemingway and his lions. For these writers, like the ancient heroes of mythology, hunting is more of a spiritual quest than an exercise in grocery shopping. One of the requirements of a spiritual quest is that there have to be rules to your hunt and penalties for breaking them. If you’re hunting for Grendel or the like, you can’t just dynamite the lake—it isn’t sporting and your success doesn’t prove anything noble. Beautifully told by Robert Flournoy, our “Not Forgotten” feature this quarter tells of a boy on a quail hunt whose grandfather gave him a primal test: one shell, one shotgun, and one crucial rule: never shoot a game bird on the ground. It was an idyllic moment in a young boy’s life. Edenic, really, for when the moment came that the boy faced the choice between satisfaction and the rule, the rule lost. above: In this issue, acclaimed author Alice Walker reveals her ideas about God, writing, B. B. King, and Martin Luther King. Photograph courtesy of
Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Mar 5, 2004
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