Too bad

"It was part of our education, learning to lean on the wind, trusting the wind, learning to be the hypotenuse." "Trigonometry, our teacher explained, is the study of angles. Late for school is a failure to Connect two points with a straight line." "The blizzard sealed our eyes, we said. We had to walk backwards in order to see---our tracks in the snow, the shape of the wind." "The past, we argued, must be a curved line. Walking backwards in the driven snow, we had arrived, by our calculations, early to class." "With a prodigious body of innovative writing behind him, Robert Kroetsch turns to…