“There’s no person a whoremonger, who wasn’t something worse first,” Haze said. “That’s not the sin, nor blasphemy. The sin came before them.” The truck driver’s face remained exactly the same. “Jesus is a trick on niggers,” Haze said. The driver put both his hands on the window and gripped it. He looked as if he intended to pick up the car. “Will you get your goddam outhouse off the middle of the road?” he said. “I don’t have to run from anything because I don’t believe in anything,” Haze said.
