The Man in the Tree

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I have taken some liberties with geography in this novel, but Dog River, Oregon, exists, although it is no longer called by that name. There really is such a place as the Lost Forest, and it really is not on most maps.

I wish to acknowledge my debt to the authors of two books not mentioned in the text: Jesus the Magician, by Morton Smith (Harper. 1978), and The Trial and Death of Jesus, by Haim Cohn (Harper,1971).

D.K.

To

AMIT and MAGGIE GOSWAMI

Before he was born he remembered the darkness and the light. The darkness was the color of old blood, and in it there were drifting shapes that were not stars.

He remembered the doctor's face -- he had plump cheeks and a ragged black mustache -- and a voice saying: "My gosh, he's a big one, isn't he?"

When he was four, he told his mother some of the things he could remember; later he heard her saying to his father, "What an imagination Gene has." But she was thinking, What a strange child.

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