βHe was carrying on partly to make them laugh, but mainly because delight was in him and he could not contain it. He was preparing himself and all that he had to be given to Ruth in return only for herself. He felt opening in him the depths of a generosity that he had never known.β
Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack
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