Out on the two-lane blacktop of Highway 61, heading for a reading in Arkansas, I take a wrong turn and end up on a single-track dirt road that dead-ends in a marshy bottom near the Mississippi River.

• 回到61号公路的双车道沥青路面后，我一心要赶到阿肯色去参加一个读书会，由于拐错了一个弯，最后开到了一条单车道土路上，土路一直通到到密西西比河边一个芦苇荡后就中断了。