Scruggs Nation, January 28

Just some brief items today. I've got some good Scruggs-related documents, but I'll see if I can get them posted tomorrow. Monday morning is a wicked time to post, and Monday in January in Portland is even worse. T.S. Eliot said April is the cruellest month, but I'll put my money on January every single time. Incidentally, the poem where he said that, the Waste Land, contains what to me is the most chilling line in literature: "I will show you fear in a handful of dust." It could mean various things, but one interpretation surely is in keeping with the answer to the question Tolstoy posed in his 1886 short story, How Much Land Does A Man Need? The answer? Just enough for a grave. Here's the story's last paragraph: His servant picked up the spade and dug a grav