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Unsafe, Unsound Ethan "There’s a dead man coming up the road." I looked up from my grandfather's old copy of Euclid's Elements and blinked away a momentary blindness. It had grown dark while I was reading and Ma had placed a lamp on the table beside me without my even noticing it. Now I couldn't see outside of the small circle of its light. It took a few blinks before I could make out Jacob across the room, ghost-like in his flowing white nightshirt standing at the moon-bright window. "From town or from out?" Ma asked, setting aside the pair of my father's pants she had been hemming up to my size. After Jacob's growth spurt it was time for me to hand down my own things and make do with my father's, even though they were far too big for me. "Out," Jacob said. "A long ways, I think." W