Our hero’s good home and fortune
and how he began to lose it
Not long ago, in the belly of a big-bellied land called
Wonderland, there lived a young man who, in order to
protect from unwanted commercial solicitations, we’ll
simply call X.
X grew up with loving parents in a prosperous time of
peace. He attended public schools from kindergarten
through the university, and after ten years in the building
trades, he earned a graduate degree from the prestigious
School of Ecology and Economics.
After graduate school, X remained at the university and
became well known for his public radio show, Home
Renovation and Repair Issues. He built himself a beautiful
house in the country down a long driveway through a
grove of Lombardi poplars. In those days the sky was
mostly blue and the grass very green. There were brook
trout in the creek and pretty horses in the neighboring
pasture. X read of injustice and evil in the newspaper, and
he saw it on the evening news, but, sitting on his watersealed
redwood deck in the evening after a day discussing
with curious and energetic callers concrete slabs, vent
spaces, blown-in cellulose, wall mold, and capillary flow
through foundations, injustice and evil seemed far away
indeed.
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