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Then he'd say this:

"Smoke and wind and fire are all things you can feel but can't touch. Memories and dreams are like that too. They're what this world is made up of. There's really only a very short time that we get hair and teeth and put on red cloth and have bones and skin and look out our eyes. Not for long. Some folks longer than others. If you're lucky, you'll get t be the one who tells the story: how the eyes have seen, the hair has blown, the caress the skin has felt, how the bones have ached.

"What the human heart is like," he said.

"How the devil called and we did not answer.

"How we answered." (45)

Spanbauer, Tom. The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991.