The Brothers Bishop

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Bart Yates. The Brothers Bishop
Books by Bart Yates
THE BROTHERS BISHOP. BART YATES
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER ONE
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LEAVE MYSELF BEHIND
THE BROTHERS BISHOP
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I pull out a small black copy of essays by Emerson. The cover is slightly water-damaged, but the pages are unmarred except for places in the text where somebody has marked various passages with a pencil. I riffle through it and I’m startled to find that somebody in my family has underlined many of the same sections I’ve always loved. Whatever our differences, every single member of my family has always felt the same way I do about books in general and the Transcendentalists in specific—even my fucked-up father.
Emerson saved my life in college, by the way. I know that sounds melodramatic, but I’m not joking. I was planning to kill myself one night (attempt number three if I’d gone through with it, but who’s counting?) when for some reason I picked up a tattered copy of The Norton Anthology of American Literature instead of the bottle of pills next to it on the table by the bed, and I discovered the “Self-Reliance” essay for the first time. It was like I’d been having a nightmare and all of a sudden a sweet old man reached out of a book—and across a century and a half—to shake me awake. Scoff if you will, but I swear I could feel him in the room with me the whole time, sitting beside me and talking softly, like someone keeping watch over a sick friend. I know this makes me sound like a crackpot, but once or twice I even thought I felt a hand on my head.
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