"No," he said firmly, as though he had actually thought about this before. "I just want to make something that will endure. The piece itself is what interests me, and the fact that many people will have good experiences around my table over the next hundred years." A thing of beauty, it would seem, is indeed a joy forever.
As I left, I told him to have fun creating his table. "Oh, I will," he said, in a darn-tootin' kind of way.
Outside, the anglers were still sending their lines across the alley in what looked like slow motion. Fishing line has a way of taking its time.
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