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With more than one hundred light bulbs in the ceiling, plus an electric lighted sign outside, Anderson’s was a monument to Thomas Edison and a promise of things to come: vice and politics arm in arm under the brilliant, man-made radiance of American ingenuity.

What makes some people more virtuous than others? Is it something they know from birth? Don’t they ever feel that zingy, thrilling urge to smash the world to bits?

…and that’s what Hell is like, I think. It’s cold and shame and shaking. And worst of all, is loneliness.

If up till then I’d drawn apart from other folk to be alone with God, from that day for I shut the door and booted it. In part I thought to save myself from the calling of the world to sin. In even greater part, I think, I sought to save the world from me.

“There’s two things charm the eyes like wizardry. One’s flames, but I’ve seen enough to last my life. The other’s water. I watch that river till I think I even hear him sing.”
-Aedwen

What’s lost is nothing to what’s found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.