Daniel Alarcón
speaker
2,010 appearances
36 recordings
11 series
first heard Feb 2022
last heard 10 Jul
Daniel Alarcón’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think he knew.
I think that's why the bell by the door took four lag bolts.
He'd hung the small bright bell directly above the buried one, like a man keeping his hand on a lid.
We left within the hour.
We didn't pack carefully.
Wesley came back to himself slow, over the drive down, and by Old Forge he was crying again and apologizing.
And I told him there was nothing to apologize for.
That the thing had reached into him and used the best part of him against him.
His love for his father.
And that wasn't weakness.
That was just the lever it found.
I believe that.
He carries it harder than I do anyway.
It wasn't his father out there.
but it had his father's voice down so exactly that some animal part of him will spend the rest of his life not entirely sure, and I can't take that from him, and I wish I could.
We sold the cabin that winter, fast and for less than it was worth, to a buyer out of Syracuse who wanted 40 acres and a hunting camp and didn't ask many questions.
I tried, when we closed, to tell him about the rules.
I'd kept the tape.
I'd photographed every strip of it before we left, and I printed the photographs, and I tried to hand them to him at the closing, and explain that the old man who'd built the place had left instructions, and that they mattered, and that the bell by the door especially, the bell most of all, should never be touched and never be taken down."
I tried.
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