What a beautiful world it was once. At least a river of it was. - Norman Maclean

She was one of the most beautiful dancers I've ever seen. She made her partner feel as if he were about to be left behind, or already had been. It is a strange and wonderful and somewhat embarrassing feeling to hold someone in your arms who is trying to detach you from the earth and you aren't good enough to follow her.

"If you push me far enough, all I really know is that he was a fine fisherman."
"You know more than that," my father said. "He was beautiful."

The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.