“But don’t you know that this rifle was designed to be used by Americans defending their homes and honor against wicked enemies?” he said. So I said a lot depended on whose body and whose rifle we were talking about, that either one of them could be good or evil. “And who renders the final decision on that?” he said. “God?” I said. “I mean here on Earth,” he said. “I don’t know,” I said. “Painters—and storytellers, including poets and playwrights and historians,” he said. “They are the justices of the Supreme Court of Good and Evil, of which I am now a member, and to which you may belong
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