Taunt your children with the task of your burial

On Andre Dubus workshopping one of his final stories:

There was a debate, though, of the sort we often had at Andre’s house over some practical issues in the material. The main character digs a grave and builds a coffin and buries a man over the course of an afternoon, and many of us felt there wasn’t enough time to accomplish all that labor. …

Later, Andre’s two sons took up the same argument, and their old man challenged them to build his coffin when the time came and see what was true and what wasn’t. It took Jeb and Andre III more than 15 hours, the two of them, with power tools. Andre would have hated that.

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