# The Bear  ## Metadata - Author: [[Andrew Krivak]] - Full Title: The Bear - Category: #books ## Highlights - It’s a jumble of things that won’t settle down, she said. Like in the autumn, when I pull leaves away from the house, and the wind is blowing in a circle, so that the leaves I’ve removed and new leaves, too, swirl around and settle back where I’ve just cleared them. I can’t get anything clear. The man nodded. I’ve felt that swirl, too. What do you do then? To the leaves? Do you try to push them away faster and farther, so they’ll swirl off into the woods? Or do you wait for a day when the wind has died down? I wait for a day when there is no wind and carry them into the woods, the girl said. Besides, some more will have fallen from the trees by then - Tags: [[pink]] - Imagine if from here everything you saw in front of you—lake, trees, the mountains to the edge of the horizon—was water. Endless blue water of waves in constant motion. That’s what the ocean looks like. The girl frowned. I can’t imagine it, she said. No, said the man. You can’t. Not until you see it. And hear it. And smell it. - Tags: [[pink]] - Not all animals had the range of voice that could be heard, he said, but all living things spoke, and perhaps the real question was how she could understand him. - Tags: [[pink]]