You are really going to think I'm crazy when I tell you this one: I heard the voice of the Great Mysterious. ... I am white, middle class, state school educated, married with kids, and live in a Middle America, rural small town .
... which lies more clearly in questions than answers. Once again, as Richard Fool Bull instructs us, the white man has been educated out of seeing and identifying the mystic experience and thus out of a whole world of new knowledge.
The visitors to the cabin could not help but note the difference between this and the rank odor of human waste that always permeated the quarters of the Pilgrims. For the first time in her life, Mother knew envy—real envy.
The Reluctant Pilgrim: Defoe's Emblematic Method and Quest for Form in Robinson Crusoe
"An honest and revealing description of one skeptic's spiritual journey from his Lutheran upbringing to Native sensibilities"--