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Playing Word Doctor Behind the Barn
- Journal of American Folklore
- American Folklore Society
- Volume 124, Number 492, Spring 2011
- pp. 118-122
- 10.1353/jaf.2011.0032
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The occasional novel becomes marrow to the human soul; one such is Rudy Wiebe's Sweeter Than all the Earth. The final paragraph describes Adam, the elder, and Trintje the young, sharing a sliver of potato, presumably a wafer of the Eucharist, thereby arresting time and space, and setting matters between man and God right. The author reflects on the etymology of the Mennonite Low German term Eadschock; possibly Ead + schock = 60, he ponders.