ABSTRACT
“If the Man Go to the Water” recalls an experience from college days, some 63 years ago. Inspired by a professor’s lecture on the Clown’s contrast of fate and free will in Hamlet’s grave-diggers scene and then shocked by a roommate’s account of the accidental, ironic death of his uncle, Sidney Homan tries, on a very limited scale, to assert our control over reality—if only for three minutes.
