The World to Come

00:37:27,620 --> 00:37:29,539 How long will the feed in the barn last? 368 00:37:32,709 --> 00:37:35,503 Each cow eats 26 pounds of forage every day. 369 00:37:36,713 --> 00:37:38,882 You should know that. 370 00:37:38,965 --> 00:37:42,552 They start to skinny down after three days. 371 00:37:42,635 --> 00:37:45,346 Heard the newspaper predicts the storm'll let up by then. 372 00:37:45,430 --> 00:37:46,681 But that's probably based on 373 00:37:46,765 --> 00:37:49,017 an expert's consultation of a goose bone. 374 00:38:00,612 --> 00:38:04,115 "In a real crisis of nature, we're all at another's mercy." 375 00:38:04,783 --> 00:38:05,825 Yes. 376 00:38:07,994 --> 00:38:09,162 My mother liked to say, 377 00:38:09,245 --> 00:38:11,831 "We tumble from one mortification to another." 378 00:38:18,755 --> 00:38:21,841 When I was seven, an earthquake knocked down our house and barn. 379 00:38:24,260 --> 00:38:25,261 Did I tell you? 380 00:38:26,262 --> 00:38:27,305 Never. 381 00:38:28,556 --> 00:38:30,225 - An earthquake? - Yes. 382 00:38:33,102 --> 00:38:34,896 I remember something woke me before dawn. 383 00:38:34,979 --> 00:38:36,231 I don't know what. 384 00:38:38,358 --> 00:38:39,776 My father was calling out. 385 00:38:42,654 --> 00:38:46,074 But I couldn't tear myself away from the window. 386 00:38:46,157 --> 00:38:50,495 I saw birds fluttering in the air, afraid to set down. 387 00:38:50,578 --> 00:38:52,997 The river was roiling, and I couldn't move. 388 00:38:54,999 --> 00:38:56,042 And then... 389 00:39:00,964 --> 00:39:04,342 Finally, I jumped down to our collapsed stairwell, 390 00:39:06,511 --> 00:39:08,346 as all my brothers had done before me. 391 00:39:08,429 --> 00:39:10,849 And we all huddled together in the dark on the porch. 392 00:39:21,109 --> 00:39:22,610 Later, my mother said 393 00:39:22,694 --> 00:39:25,446 that the dread never fully went away after that. 394 00:39:30,076 --> 00:39:32,704 She said, "What was safe if the solid earth could do that?" 395 00:39:35,999 --> 00:39:39,669 Mother. 396 00:39:58,187 --> 00:39:59,939 Tallie! You're frozen! 397 00:40:05,403 --> 00:40:08,197 Tallie! Stay awake! Stay awake! 398 00:40:08,281 --> 00:40:10,241 Open your eyes! Open your eyes! 399 00:40:15,747 --> 00:40:16,748 Keep your eyes open! 400 00:40:17,582 --> 00:40:18,583 Keep your eyes open! 401 00:40:20,418 --> 00:40:21,711 Look at me. 402 00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:25,548 I would die without you. 403 00:40:32,847 --> 00:40:34,182 Then you're safe. 404 00:40:36,309 --> 00:40:37,602 Because I am here. 405 00:40:39,729 --> 00:40:41,856 Monday, March 17th. 406 00:40:58,081 --> 00:41:00,917 Half the chickens are lost. 407 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,462 I dug ice and snow from their dead open mouths 408 00:41:04,545 --> 00:41:07,090 in an attempt to revive them. 409 00:41:40,498 --> 00:41:41,541 Hobnails... 410 00:41:42,917 --> 00:41:44,168 For better traction. 411 00:41:47,547 --> 00:41:49,632 The Widow Weldon's son, on his rounds, 412 00:41:49,716 --> 00:41:52,760 reported that Tallie had gotten home safely, 413 00:41:52,844 --> 00:41:55,555 with, he thought, only a bit of frostbite. 414 00:41:55,638 --> 00:41:57,807 We haven't seen your friend down the lane for a while. 415 00:41:58,850 --> 00:42:00,852 Finney took her to Oneonta. 416 00:42:04,564 --> 00:42:06,607 So everything is tedious and lonesome? 417 00:42:07,984 --> 00:42:10,194 Thursday, April 10th. 418 00:42:14,490 --> 00:42:16,909 Biscuits and dried mackerel for breakfast. 419 00:42:18,786 --> 00:42:21,330 Dyer has augmented the padding in the cattle pens 420 00:42:21,414 --> 00:42:24,292 with his hoardings of maple leaves and old straw. 421 00:42:26,335 --> 00:42:28,838 It always seems that Tallie will never appear. 422 00:42:30,548 --> 00:42:33,342 But I remind myself that time and the needle wear 423 00:42:33,426 --> 00:42:35,053 through the longest morning. 424 00:42:36,554 --> 00:42:38,973 And I have noted that when she does arrive, 425 00:42:40,516 --> 00:42:43,853 my heart is like a leaf borne over a rock 426 00:42:43,936 --> 00:42:46,022 by rapidly moving water. 427 00:43:07,085 --> 00:43:08,127 Hello. 428 00:43:08,211 --> 00:43:10,046 Careful. 429 00:43:12,215 --> 00:43:14,801 Stay. Sit, sit. 430 00:43:21,724 --> 00:43:24,435 Saturday, April 12th. 431 00:43:24,519 --> 00:43:27,939 - I spent the last two days... - Very damp, cloudy and cool. 432 00:43:29,148 --> 00:43:30,691 Smoky. 433 00:43:30,775 --> 00:43:33,361 Perhaps the forest is somewhere on fire. 434 00:43:35,988 --> 00:43:38,491 Your nose is being gracious. 435 00:43:38,574 --> 00:43:41,577 Monday, April 14th. 436 00:43:41,661 --> 00:43:44,288 A terribly bad spring so far, 437 00:43:44,372 --> 00:43:46,707 but the clover has come up thr