"What have you been reading?" I asked.  "A book," he said (father).  It was on the ground on the other side of him.  So I would not have to bother to look over his knees to see it, he said, "A good book."

Then he told me, "In the part I was reading it says the Word was in the beginning, and that's right.  I used to think water was first, but if you listen carefully you will hear that the words are underneath the water."

Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It, pg. 95