1:35:01
Killing somebody for money.
1:35:03
By the middle of winter up here, people
kill each other because they're bored.
1:35:10
Bobby took a risk, didn't work out
for him, and that's all.
1:35:28
"Winter has locked us
in its icy embrace.
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The pelts of the animals are thick and
bluish, our home is blanketed with snow.
1:35:37
Papa calls it 'Limbo, ' because it isn't
heaven and it's too cold to be hell.
1:35:43
Mother wondered about purgatory,
but he said no.
1:35:46
Purgatory has an end to it.
1:35:49
'Don't torture me so, ' said Mother.
1:35:53
The salmon we dried up has run out.
1:35:56
The kits are eating solid food now,
and it's hard to keep up with them.
1:36:01
Papa went to the other side
of the island and shot two sea lions.
1:36:05
He could only bring one back
without tipping over in the skiff.
1:36:09
I had to help him
with the crosscut saw...
1:36:11
...breaking it down to pieces
that we keep in the shed.
1:36:15
Papa said it's just meat, but I tried
not to look at what I was doing.
1:36:20
When Papa rowed back, the other
sea lion had been gotten to by a bear.
1:36:25
We put a piece of the frozen meat
in each of the pens...
1:36:29
...and the foxes fight over it
and gnaw at it...
1:36:31
...and the outside melts from
the heat of their little tongues.
1:36:35
Mother won't deal with them anymore.
1:36:38
She has grown silent
with the shorter, darker days...
1:36:42
...and only now and again will she
break out into one of her Bible songs.
1:36:47
She asks me to join her,
but we don't harmonize well. "
1:36:52
" I have a dream about Fox.
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He is a young man who comes to me on
snowshoes, dressed in the blue pelts.