Though Ned may represent the writer, or someone he knew, I would wager to say that everyone, or at least most of us would find if we looked deeply, a bit of him inside ourselves! By swimming through each pool, he is taking us through a segment of his forgotten life one piece at a time. From the way Ned thinks he still is, we understand how he once was. However, as the seasons change, like pages in the story about him, so does Ned's life.

The story begins with a picturesque scene of family, hearth, rest and contentment. Neddy Merrill is a family man casually loitering by a friend's pool with his wife and close friends on a sunny Sunday afternoon. He has not a care in the world. Ned gets up on a Sunday morning with only the mild dilemma of having drunk too much the previous night; a worry not requiring too much attention or concern on his part. Yo

Ned seeks to add the proverbial icing to his cake by taking this swimming excursion. It aids in the reader in discovering what Ned's past life was like and what it becomes, due to his appetite for destruction. Ned feels the need to create an adventure for him to enjoy that enables him to be a pilgrim, an explorer, and most of all a man with a function. Perhaps the perfect day in which he started was too perfect, even mundane, in his eyes. It was after all, everyday life.

I was a sixteen year-old man at the time, I had come over to my mother's house during the hottest part of the day one summer to mow her lawn while she was shopping. I had just finished cutting the front yard when my mother's neighbor, John, came to me with a beer in each hand and offered me one. I took the beer with my dirty hand and opened the most thirst-quenching drink I could have ever imagined. I am not sure what kind of beer it was, probably domestic, nothing fancy. It didn't matter. It was, merely the circumstance. I know I will never taste a beer quite like that one again.

u see, Neddy is an easy-going, spunky guy with an exuberant spirit about him, seemingly ready to take on a good challenge. He also displays a sort of cocky ere and appears to have had his fill of adventure and sewing of wild oats. So, the mere enjoyment of a peaceful afternoon with friends and family is not enough to satisfy someone with Ned's appetite for adventure. He must have more. Therefore, Neddy decides, after contemplation, to enlarge and celebrate the day's beauty by undertaking a long

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