The Book of Strange New Things
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Severin being in a bit of a snit with me on the way over.
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Question??
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I miss living through the visible moments of life with you. Without you at my side,
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Haha - so human
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the deep scar between his eyebrows
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It’s significant that the only miracle He ever performed for “non-emergency” reasons, but just because He wanted to cheer people up, was at a wedding.
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Jesus didn’t ignore people.
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Bible 1 Jn. 2:16-17 KJV
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The sky’s color was elusive;
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occasionally a patch of air would shimmer and become slightly blurry for a few seconds, before shivering back into transparency.
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he quickly learned to shift his gaze elsewhere whenever the blurring began to occur.
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“I haven’t seen any animals. Just a few bugs.” “Yeah, it’s kind of … low diversity here,” she said.
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Tartaglione
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Kurtzberg?”
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They were a hit with the aliens,
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He was being tested, that much was obvious, but what was the nature of the test? Whether he had the humility to appear weak in the eyes of Grainger, or whether he had the strength to push on?
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reminding you that practicalities are not your strong suit
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two Bibles (King James and New Living Translation, 4th edition),
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just talked about the weather (it’s been bucketing down again).
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we’ve had some flooding. The rain was ridiculous, it didn’t let up for five hours, full pelt.
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There were torrents flowing along the footpaths;
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Make an appointment to return to check in.
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“The next official USIC visit—
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“… three hundred and sixty-odd hours from now.”
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360 hours = 15 days. Five days at 3 per one. Ask her to come back in 5 days. Or a week.
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Why not ask?
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Their robes were all the same design, but there was scarcely a color repeated.
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naffness,
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a world where aesthetic niceties weren’t wanted and utilitarianism ruled.
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the sweat-drenched coconut-stinky tub in the house of snorers.
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“All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.” ~ Julian of Norwich
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Egoism
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Where did they get their Bible stories, and how complete was their version? What was the theology that came with their exposure?
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he didn’t understand what it was he hadn’t understood.
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By not ask?
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Simile
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“Row of needle. Row of … knife.”
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a flimsy metal fence,
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“We alSo love thoSe who have no love for JeSuS. However, they will die.”
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“Needle, So many needle,”
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the spikes on the tops of the railings.
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“Thief will die,” agreed one of the Oasans.
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The Oasans hummed approvingly. Moving to somewhere better and safer was a concept they could understand.
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Well if being without a leg can be “perfectly fine.”
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“Your wife find the Book,” said Jesus Lover Seventy-something. “Read, read, read, read before you. Learn the Pechnique of JeSuS. Then your wife come for you and Say, I have found the Book of SPrange New ThingS. Read now, you. We Shall noP periSh, buP have ePernal life.”
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