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Clearing Newground

Clearing Newground Robert Morgan Appalachian Heritage, Volume 25, Number 4, Fall 1997, pp. 24-30 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1997.0021 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/435809/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:09 GMT from JHU Libraries Clearing Newground Robert Morgan My first contact with Jim Wayne Miller occurred in the fall of 1963 when, a junior at UNC-Chapel Hill, I was editing fiction for The Carolina Quar- terly. We published some stories by Jim Wayne Miller that year, including one where two brothers from the country attended school. When the teacher asks the students what they had for breakfast most students lie, telling the teacher what she wants to hear. "They recited: bacon, eggs, toast, milk, cereal, all the lovely approved things." But the younger brother Eugene doesn't understand the game and answers that he had biscuits and sawmill gravy, and then he adds, "and new molasses." The older brother, who narrates the story, says, "A half-mad, hysterical laugh rose to the high ceil- ing of the gym and bounced back before I realized that it was I who had laughed. I cringed down, ashes inside, and looked to see whether anyone on either http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Clearing Newground

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Appalachian Review , Volume 25 (4) – Jan 8, 2014
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Robert Morgan Appalachian Heritage, Volume 25, Number 4, Fall 1997, pp. 24-30 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1997.0021 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/435809/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:09 GMT from JHU Libraries Clearing Newground Robert Morgan My first contact with Jim Wayne Miller occurred in the fall of 1963 when, a junior at UNC-Chapel Hill, I was editing fiction for The Carolina Quar- terly. We published some stories by Jim Wayne Miller that year, including one where two brothers from the country attended school. When the teacher asks the students what they had for breakfast most students lie, telling the teacher what she wants to hear. "They recited: bacon, eggs, toast, milk, cereal, all the lovely approved things." But the younger brother Eugene doesn't understand the game and answers that he had biscuits and sawmill gravy, and then he adds, "and new molasses." The older brother, who narrates the story, says, "A half-mad, hysterical laugh rose to the high ceil- ing of the gym and bounced back before I realized that it was I who had laughed. I cringed down, ashes inside, and looked to see whether anyone on either

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