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Sunday, 13 July 2008 18:55
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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