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“A human rights nightmare is occurring on our watch” (15)

Our highest task is to make out the words to better partake in the ecstasy of existence.

Hakan...the giant Swede...on the mining hill...not visually the scene very clearly...Diaz seems to be a bit too lyrical so far...

"Hell is the absence of all the people you long for."

"Because we are always looking for the former world, before all the traces of the former world are gone" (130)

Quanah is a bad-ass

The judgment scene for for the Reverend Thomas. Incredible.

Need to get my head wrapped around this style of storytelling but very interesting plot progression so far. I can't tell about character development, however.

Just finished Rachel Jackson chapter. For an entertaining, easy access book made for children, Aron does his research.

“There is history that is based on hard, documented fact; history that is colored with rumor, speculation, or falsehood; and history that exists in what might be termed the hinterlands of the imagination” (102)

Best description of a baseball game I've ever read in a novel. Makes the Sandlot seem tame.

"Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God." (xv)

"Christianity is probably the only religion in the world that teaches us, from the very cross, how to win by losing." (xxiii)

"Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God." (xv)

"Christianity is probably the only religion in the world that teaches us, from the very cross, how to win by losing." (xxiii)

These are relentless...so much unstated emotion as well....