Maclean’s labor certainly transcends a eulogistic, obituary impulse, that “small memorial of knowledge I was hoping to erect to the dead in Mann Gulch” (189). Of course its autobiographical gravity and complicated literary design-its ex tended metaphors and Christian symbolism, for example-make it the most unusual and elaborate “fire report” ever turned in. This “fire report”-Maclean’s final term for his book-testifies to the toil and toll a man’s “privilege”exacts. A L A N W E L T Z I E N Western Montana College TheTwoLives ofNormanMaclean andThe TextofFire in YoungMen andFire i Midway through Part II of the posthumously published YoungMen and Fire Norman Maclean, thinking of the Westminster Catechism’s influence upon his father’s literary style and perhaps his own, com ments, in filial echo, “One of the chief privileges of man is to speak up for the universe” (216). In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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