Norman Maclean

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Norman Maclean

Taught Shakespeare at Chicago for forty years. Wrote one short novel about my brother and a Montana river when I was seventy-three. That was the one that mattered.

Norman Maclean

·1976·Big Blackfoot River, Montana, USA

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.