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Lorna
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“The Mennonite watches the enshadowed dark before them as it is reflected to him in the mirror over the bar. He turns to them. His eyes are wet, he speaks slowly. The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full. Hear me. Ye’ll wake more than the dogs.�
— Jan 04, 2023 09:48AM
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Lorna
is on page 214 of 351
“That night they could see the fires of the army less than ten miles to the south. They sat out the night in darkness . . . At sunrise the Delawares rode into the camp and sat on the ground with Glanton and Brown and the judge. In the eastern light the fires on the plain faded like an evil dream and the country lay bare and sparkling in the pure air. . . �
— Jan 10, 2023 08:11AM
Lorna
is on page 108 of 351
“He made a gesture toward the world beyond where all the land lay under darkness and all a great stained altarstone. He turned and poured his wine and poured again from the waterjar, temperate old man, and drank.�
— Jan 08, 2023 07:18PM
Lorna
is on page 108 of 351
“He looked up. Blood, he said. This is a thirsty country. The blood of a thousand Christs. Nothing.�
— Jan 08, 2023 06:58PM
Lorna
is on page 63 of 351
“The altars had been hauled down and the tabernacle looted and the great sleeping God of the Mexicans routed from his golden cup. The primitive painted saints in their frames hung cocked on the walls as if an earthquake had visited and a dead Christ in a glass bier lay broken in the chancel floor.�
— Jan 05, 2023 09:39AM
