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some of the most exciting people this earth has known: the Athapascans,the Tlingits and much later the Eskimos and Aleuts. sics are almost obscured by Paul’s reference books, historical journals, nautical maps, and stray blueprint designs. a kind of mechanical agent for good, andhe would have256been astonished had someone pointed this out. Katie shakes her head.

But the old man distances himself quickly, slipping his arms into his suit jacket. And that is Paul’s gift: an intuition of just how much a person can do slowly. This is a gift for them all. Two weeks later, when I returned from school, the hoop and backboard in our driveway had been taken down and given to a local charity.