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Clips from A River Runs Through It

"Long ago, when I was a young man,..."
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"...my father said to me "Norman, you like to write stories. ""
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"And I said "Yes, I do. ""
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"Then he said "Someday, when you're ready,..."
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"...you might tell our family story. ""
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""Only then will you understand what happened..."
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"...and why. ""
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"In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly-fishing."
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"We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in Missoula, Montana,..."
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"...where Indians still appeared out of the wilderness..."
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"...to walk the honky-tonks and brothels of Front Street."
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"My father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly-fisherman."
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"(Reverend) There is one yonder..."
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"And though it is true that one day a week was given over wholly to religion,..."
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"...even then he told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen."
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"And we were left to assume, as my younger brother Paul and I did,..."
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"...that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly-fishermen..."
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"...and that John, the favourite, was a dry fly-fisherman."
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"The poor without Christ are of all men the most miserable."
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"But the poor with Christ..."
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"...are princes and kings of the earth."
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"In the afternoon, we would walk with him while he unwound between services."
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"He almost always chose a path along the Big Blackfoot,..."
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"...which we considered our family river."
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"And it was there he felt his soul restored and his imagination stirred."
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"Long ago, rain fell on mud and became rock."
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"Half a billion years ago."
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"But even before that, beneath the rocks,..."
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"...are the words of God. Listen."
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"(running water)"
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"And if Paul and I listened very carefully all our lives,..."
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"...we might hear those words."
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"Even so, Paul and I probably received as many hours' instruction in fly-fishing..."
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"...as we did on all other spiritual matters."
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"As a Presbyterian, my father believed that man by nature was a damned mess,..."
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"...and only by picking up God's rhythms could we regain power and beauty."
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"Ten..."
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"To him, all good things, trout as well as eternal salv ation, come by grace."
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"And grace comes by art, and art does not come easy."
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"Norman?"
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"So my brother and I learned to cast Presbyterian style,..."
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"...on a metronome."
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"(metronome ticks)"
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"He began each session with the same instruction."
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"Casting is an art..."
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"...that is performed on a four-count rhythm between ten o'clock and two o'clock."
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"(ducks quack)"
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"If he had had his way, nobody who did not know how to catch a fish..."
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"...would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching it."
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"So it was with my formal education as well."
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"Each weekday, while my father worked on his Sunday sermon,..."
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"...I attended the school of the Reverend Maclean."
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"He taught nothing but reading and writing..."
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"...and, being a Scot, believed that the art of writing lay in thrift."
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"Half as long."
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"(sighs)"
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"So while my friends spent their days at Missoula Elementary, I stayed home..."
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"...and learned to write the American language."
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"Again,..."
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"...half as long."
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"Good. Now throw it away."
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"(Mother) Norman!"
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"Norman!"
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"Wait for your brother!"
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"However, there was a balance to my father's system."
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"Every afternoon, I was set free, untutored and untouched till supper,..."
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"...to learn on my own the natural side of God's order."
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"And there could be no better place to learn than the Montana of my youth."
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"It was a world with dew still on it,..."
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"...more touched by wonder and possibility than any I have since known."
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"(men whistle and shout)"
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"(horses whinny)"
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"Goddamn it! Open up the door!"
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"- (boys laugh) - Hey! What the hell is going on?"
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"- Hey, where are you guys going? - Chicken!"
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"(women laugh)"
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"Go on, move over."
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"(women whoop and cheer)"
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"(punches thud, man grunts)"
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"But it was a tough world, too."
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"Even as children we understood that, and admired it."
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"(men grunt)"
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"(train whistles)"
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"And of course, we had to test it."
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"I knew I was tough, because I'd been bloodied in battle."
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"Get him! Get him!"
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"You sissy!"
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"Come on!"
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"Come on! Let's see some blood here! Go on! Lots of blood!"
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"Go on!"
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"Paul was different. His toughness came from some secret place inside him."
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"He simply knew he was tougher than anyone alive."
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"(Reverend) Grace will not be said until that bowl is clean."
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"(china crashes)"
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"Man has been eating God's oats for a thousand years."
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"It's not the place of an eight-year-old boy to change that tradition."
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"(clock ticks)"
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"(clock strikes)"
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"(clears throat)"
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"Grace."
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"Oh, God,..."
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"...who art rich in forgiveness, grant that we may hold fast..."
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"...the good things we receive from Thee."
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"And as often as we fall into sin,..."
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"...be lifted by repentence through Thy grace."
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"Amen."
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"(Paul) Norm, what do you wanna be when you grow up?"
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"Minister, I guess."
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"Or a professional boxer."
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"You think you could beat Jack Johnson?"
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"I dunno."
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"I think you could. I'd lay a bet on it."
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"What are you gonna be?"
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"Professional fly-fisherman."
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"There's no such thing."
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"- There isn't? - No."
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"Hm."
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"I guess... a boxer."
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"Not a minister?"
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"(laughs)"
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