But inside his balding head he has a bold idea, and sometimes when a certain kind of man has a certain kind of idea, one that he considers good, that good idea crowds out all the other thoughts and ideas, and it becomes the only thing he thinks about. Some would say he does not even encroach on smart. His own mind is fairly certain on the point, but he’ll admit there is room for doubt. That is to say, he walks in reverse, and he chooses this time of the day so he may behave in this odd fashion cloaked in darkness lest his neighbors see him and make him for crazy. He is out before the sun because he walks backward.
This article originally appeared in the September 2018 issue with the headline “The Man Who Walked Backward.”Ī man in Abilene walks this morning, like every morning, down a bone-dry farm-to-market road outside town.
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