Beware the Under Toad

from Welcome to Your Life · host John Alan Turner

A little boy in a John Irving novel mishears "undertow" as "the Under Toad" and spends the whole summer scanning the water for a monster that was never there. On what urgency does to your sense of scale — and how to get the frame back.

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