Abstract

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.

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