Jonathan Duckworth
who set down no commandments, endorsed no products, and charged no price of admission. A man beyond fame and wealth; a being beyond desire.
THE IDEA.
One day, late one November, in the town of Paxton, Florida, a man named Rutledge moved invisibly through the aisles of a dollar store. He was someone easy not to notice, and the vicious circularity of not noticing someone is of course that people never notice their lack of noticing. Mr. Rutledge had come to buy dishsoap and fabric softener, but stopped at a display offering Christmas lights at “half off.� He picked up a roll of such lights. Something was happening; he was becoming the instrument of something powerful. Mr. Rutledge, who had never felt inspiration in his life, was struck with the certainty that a gray world was about to fill with color.
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