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A preacher’s power is in his neck and tongue and arm.
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Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off into the dark where he was not sure of his footing, where he might be walking on the water and not know it and then suddenly know it and drown.
he had learned to read and write but that it was wiser not to;
No one observing him would have known that he had no place to go.
The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole order of the universe and would take all time to complete.
“Jesus died to redeem you,” she said. “I never ast him,” he muttered.
The cages were electrically heated in the winter and air-conditioned in the summer and there were six men hired to wait on the animals and feed them T-bone steaks. The animals didn’t do anything but lie around. Enoch watched them every day, full of awe and hate.
His face behind the windshield was sour and frog-like; it looked as if it had a shout closed up in it; it looked like one of those closet doors in gangster pictures where someone is tied to a chair behind it with a towel in his mouth.
BABE, I NEVER SAW ANYBODY THAT LOOKED AS GOOD AS YOU BEFORE IS WHY I CAME HERE.
felt around in its vitals
two parts suspicion and one part lust.
It occurred to her suddenly that when she was dead she would be blind too. She stared in front of her intensely, facing this for the first time.
She was not religious or morbid, for which every day she thanked her stars.
She couldn’t look at anything steadily without wanting it,
Her first plan had been to marry him and then have him committed to the state institution for the insane, but gradually her plan had become to marry him and keep him.
