He said, “When Samuel Hamilton died the world went out like a candle. I relighted it to see his lovely creations, and I saw his children tossed and torn and destroyed as though some vengefulness was at work. Let the ng-ka-py run back on your tongue.” He went on, “I had to find out my stupidities for myself. These were my stupidities: I thought the good are destroyed while the evil survive and prosper. “I thought that once an angry and disgusted God poured molten fire from a crucible to destroy or to purify his little handiwork of mud. “I thought I had inherited both the scars of the fire and
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