Everything you need to understand or teach The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks by Donald Harington.
Harington's play on the homonyms "ark" and "arc" expresses three major themes that relate to the concerns of generation, refuge, stasis, progress, and nature's entropy or the decline inherent in nature's processes. "Arc, and also ark," the narrator explains, "comes from an Indo-European word root, arkw, which means bow or arrow (it is uncertain which, perhaps both together as a unit, since one is no good without the other) ... Arc is also an...