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Voiceover of Norman Maclean : My father was a Presbyterian
minister and a fly-fisherman.
Reverend Maclean : There is one yonder...
Voiceover of Norman Maclean : And though it is true that one day a week was given
over wholly to religion, even
then he told us about Christ's
disciples being fishermen.
And we were left to assume, as my younger brother Paul and I did, that all
first-class fishermen on the Sea
of Galilee were
fly-fishermen. And that John, the favourite, was a dry
fly-fisherman.
Reverend Maclean : The poor without Christ are of all men the most miserable.
But the poor with Christ are princes and kings of the earth.
Voiceover of Norman Maclean : In the afternoon, we would walk with him while
he unwound
between services.
He almost always chose a path along the Big Blackfoot, which we considered our
family river. And it was there he felt his soul restored and his imagination
stirred.
Reverend Maclean : Long ago, rain fell on mud and became rock. Half a billion
years ago. But even before that, beneath the rocks, are the words of God.
Listen.
Voiceover of Norman Maclean : And if Paul and I listened very carefully all
our lives, we might hear those words.
Even so, Paul and I probably received as many hours' instruction in
fly-fishing as we did on all other spiritual matters.
As a Presbyterian, my father believed that man by nature was a damned mess,
and only by picking up God's rhythms could we regain power and beauty.
Reverend Maclean : Ten...
Voiceover of Norman Maclean : To him, all good things, trout as well as
eternal salvation, come by grace. And grace comes by art, and art does not come
easy.
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