Dictation at the Sawmill
Although
the Gibbetson Family owned the mill, none of its members had had anything to do
with its daily operations in years. The
grandchildren of old Adolf Gibbetson were more interested in pursuing their
“music careers” through clouds of marijuana smoke than in watching men feed
logs into a machine. The man who
actually ran the mill, Virgil Simonson, had been working there since he was a
teenager. He could remember the sawdust
hanging in old Adolf’s beard. It was to
him directly that Lucky Orfestuc applied for a job once he returned to the USA
from Europe, his now useless guitar dragging behind him like someone else’s
inheritance.
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