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Appalachian
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Before embarking on this project, I doubt I ever truly properly appreciated precisely how urgent the various voices of the New Testament authors are, or how profound the provocations of what they were saying were for their own age, and probably remain for every age. Those voices blend, or at least interweave, in a kind of wildly indiscriminate polyphony, as if an early Baroque vocal trio, an Appalachian band, a couple of Viennese tenors piping twelve-tone Lieder, and a jazz crooner or two were a
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― The New Testament
― The New Testament
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Or maybe when she realized that he was never going to come and rescue her, she did what all strong women do. She found a way to save herself.
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― Big Stone Gap
― Big Stone Gap
