The picture is poetic and fresh, smearing the surrounding mountains and forests, the radiant river water flowing under the sun, the exposed big stones washed by the water and moistened by the sun and rain, the cozy and warm small house of a family of four, the smart melody, Also, there are beautiful flowing poems:
(Scene: Norman chasing Jess' first or one of Jess's letters)
Dear Jessie,
As the moon lingers a moment over th Bitterroots
Before its descent into the invisible
My mind is filled with song
I find I am humming softly
Not to the music, but something else
Someplace else
A place remembered
A filed of grass, where no one seemed to have been
Except the deer
The memory is strengthened by the feeling of you
Dancing in my awkward arms
norman strength in what remains behind In the primal sympathy which having been must ever be In the soothing thoughts that spring out of human suffering In the faith that looks through death Thanks to the human heart by which I live Thanks to its tenderness its joys its fears To me the meanest flower that blows Can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears
Perhaps for me, this is another understanding of intellect and emotion.
Under the rocks there are the words
Some of the words are theirs
I am haunted by waters
The stones in this river
record the traces of the water and
witness many stories. This place and
this scene will haunt my dreams for a
lifetime .
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