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The Souls of Lambs, A Fable
Each year, after a new flock of lambs is conceived, born, nurtured, and then slaughtered, a troubled shepherd ponders the meaning of the cycle and his sense of responsibility and guilt.
110 pages, Hardcover
First published February 27, 1979
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October 30, 2024
The Souls of Lambs is a profound consideration of the tension between love and goodness and reality in a fallen world. Remarkably stirring.
"I was hungry and I craved fresh meat - craved instinctively - and instinct is a stronger force than all resolve to husbandry. So I killed the lamb, for I was human but a creature too.....I loved the lamb, I loved it as a husband, I cared for it and I saw its soul through husbandry, and yet I killed it. for my body craved its meat. ...[H]usbandry, which is but a very great and yet a weak mode of loving vision, all having to do with fences, all having to do with cool intention, with patterns of deliberate caring."
"I was hungry and I craved fresh meat - craved instinctively - and instinct is a stronger force than all resolve to husbandry. So I killed the lamb, for I was human but a creature too.....I loved the lamb, I loved it as a husband, I cared for it and I saw its soul through husbandry, and yet I killed it. for my body craved its meat. ...[H]usbandry, which is but a very great and yet a weak mode of loving vision, all having to do with fences, all having to do with cool intention, with patterns of deliberate caring."
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