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too much religion could be as bad as too little, maybe even worse; but moderation was just not in her husband’s nature.
“Did you know,” Willard said to the driver, “that the Romans used to gut donkeys and sew Christians up alive inside the carcasses and leave them out in the sun to rot?”
First clues towards his slipping sanity
“Now you better start digging before we get soaked.”
Who is more evil? Roy or Theo?
Theo = devil? Tempter.
hardtack
This is a candy not bread
tried to extract her womb with a toilet plunger. It had cost the gangster another three hundred at the hospital to have everything pushed back inside her.
o.O
“Like you don’t do nothing wrong.” Bodecker put his sunglasses on and forced a smile, showed Sandy his big white teeth. “But I’m the law around here, girl. You gonna find out that makes all the difference.”
He looked toward the ceiling with his hand held up high, then pointed at Emma’s pan of chicken livers. “Friends,” he began in a loud voice, “there’s no doubt we’re all humble people here in this church this evening and you all have been awful nice to me and my sweet, young bride, and I thank
ye from the bottom of my heart for the warm welcome. Now, they ain’t a one of us got all the money and fine cars and trinkets and pretty clothes that we would like to have, but friends, the poor old soul that brung in them chicken livers in that beat-up pan, well, let’s just say I’m inspired to preach on it for a minute before we set down to eat. Recall, if you can, what Jesus said to the poor in Nazareth those many centuries ago. Sure, some of us are better off than others, and I see plenty of white meat and red meat laid out on this table, and I suspect that the people who carried them
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This is a sign of his character. His pride. He saw an opportunity to raise himself up through a SHOW of false modesty. But, in so doing, also called out Emma and Arvin for being poor (it is likely that every one in the church knows who brought what even if he doesn't). It's a classist microaggression. I'm am sure Arvin will take it poorly.
The old woman took a sip and started to cry. Arvin patted her on the shoulder. “Now, now,” he said, “don’t you worry about that pus-gutted blowhard.
This, to me, is a great example of the difference between consistancey and predictability in writing. The fact that I saw these events unfolding exactly as they did is not a sign of the story being trite and un imaginative as the label "predictable" would imply. Instead, it is a sign that Pollock has done a masterful job of characterization and world-building so that his characters behave consitantly and events in his story play out in a way that accurately stems from what has happened previously.
work on her
This wording makes my skin crawl
trained as well as any dog
This girl, he predicted, was going to be so easy.
