Emphasis Preaching Journal
John Updike wrote about a...
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John Updike wrote about a carpenter working on a country house. The floors sagged. The
walls leaned. Yet the carpenter went to work with a plumb line and level. He made "a lot
of those long, irregular, oblique cuts with a ripsaw that break an amateur's heart." He left
a bookcase, kitchen counter, and cabinet that remained straight and level, although the
house itself was cockeyed.
