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the centurion Ratslayer
The sun beat straight down on the centurion without doing him any harm,
as if boiling in the sun.
Simile
stem
stern? Question
That man in the hood
this black-bearded man, his eyes festering from the sun and lack of sleep, was in anguish.
clawing his swarthy chest with his nails.
I, Matthew Levi,
‘God! Why are you angry with him? Send him death.’
Levi was in the crowd and heard the procurator announce the sentence.
I, Matthew, your faithful and only disciple!’
When the fourth hour of the execution had gone by, Levi’s torments reached their highest degree and he fell into a rage.
going to fall into the Mediterranean, and demanded an immediate miracle from God.
In a rasping voice he shouted that he was convinced of God’s injustice and did not intend to believe in him any longer.
Yes, another god would not have allowed it, he would never have allowed a man like Yeshua to be burnt by the sun on a post.
You are a black god!
Levi saw that, either under the influence of his curses, or owing to other reasons, everything in the world was changed.
The storm cloud was growling, threads of fire fell from it now and again.
a little figure in a crimson military chlamys climbing towards the place of execution.
At a gesture from Ratslayer, the file of soldiers parted, and the centurion saluted the tribune.
the one sitting on the three-legged stool, and the seated man politely rose to meet the tribune.
Gestas,
Dysmas,
Yeshua
fat horseflies sat sucking at his yellow naked body.
Ewww
‘Ha-Nozri!’
malice blazed in the eyes of Dysmas.
Yeshua
‘Give him a drink.’
The storm cloud
boiling white clouds raced ahead of the storm cloud suffused with bla...
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‘Praise the magnanimous hegemon!’
gently pricked Yeshua in the heart.
‘Praise the hegemon!’ — killed him as well.
The man in the hood followed the executioner and the centurion,
After that the tribune motioned to the centurion and, turning, started off the hilltop together with the head of the temple guard and the man in the hood.
few minutes later only one man remained in the smoky brew of storm, water and fire on the hill.
By that time both Levi and the body of Yeshua were gone from the hilltop.
An Unquiet Day
the accursed seance,
Haha
the bookkeeper Vassily Stepanovich Lastochkin,
By this wall a queue of many thousands clung in two rows,
yesterday’s unprecedented seance of black magic.
he now turned out to be the senior member of the whole Variety team.
Haha
to questions of where Likhodeev, Varenukha and Rimsky were, there was decidedly no answer.
Haha
Some sort of nonsense was beginning.
Madame Rimsky
Their first and perfectly reasonable question was:
Haha
the famous Ace of Diamonds.
The investigation settled in Varenukha’s office,
