Dan then says that if there’s a god, he might be malevolent and callous, seeing what he allows to happen to people. Dan reveals that at the funeral of his family, the priest said that they were in Heaven and enjoying eternal bliss (this claim is spurious: there’s no empirical evidence to support this hypothesis) and that he himself urgently wants to know what’s in the afterlife, if there is one. However, there was one time Dan opened up significantly to Abe: he told him that he dealt with his grief by going to the place where the car accident happened and observing the traffic light that was installed there after the fatal accident. Dan accepted, and they spent a significant amount of time with each other, though Dan always kept to himself, seeing how he scarcely talked. A few months after the accident, Abe invited Dan to go fishing with him. Consequently, although Abe wanted to talk to Dan, he was afraid he would incite his hatred, seeing how he was luckier than him in a certain way. Abe recollected that although they both encountered loss, the nature of their losses were vastly different: Abe had time to spend with his wife and to manage his affairs while Dan lost his family in the blink of an eye. He soon returned to work: the only indication that he had gone through what he did was a long scar on his face. While he was thrown out of the car through the windshield, his wife and twin sons died instantly in the collision. Unfortunately, he got into a deadly car accident that took their lives: a huge truck crushed his car at an intersection. He graduated near the top at his class from M.I.T. One of Abe’s coworkers was a man named Dan (short for Daniel) Anthony Drescher. To briefly escape his grief, he picked up the hobby of fishing and frequently went to places to fish, and was particularly interested in the Catskills due to their natural beauty. When she died, Abe was devastated, though he still maintained his composure.

Before she perished, she was quite calm, and accepted her fate.

He fell in love with her and they were married, but it turned out that she had advanced cancer: less than two years after their marriage, she was dead. When he worked his job, he met a woman named Marie, who was significantly younger than him. As a child, he went fishing, though he wasn’t interested in it that much then. He states that Dutchman’s Creek is extremely deep, and that it includes creatures unimaginable to humanity. He says that years ago he went to a place known as Dutchman’s Creek, or “Der Platz das Fischer,” an area that is in the Catskill Mountains. The protagonist of the book is called Abraham, though he calls himself Abe.

The Fisherman by John Langan