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"This is a man who lived in a hut made of U.S. Army ration tins and now he is here, in American light, come to lead them to the end of human history."
p. 6
"[M]any people in the grandstand are taking pictures, standing in the aisles and crowding the rails, whole families snapping anxiously, trying to shape a response or organize a memory, trying to neutralize the event, drain it of eeriness and power."
p. 6
"It knocks him back in awe, the loss of scale and intimacy, the way love and sex are multiplied out, the numbers and shaped crowd ... it is like a toy with thirteen thousand parts, just tootling along, an innocent and menacing thing."
p. 7
"When the Old God leaves the world, what happens to all the unexpended faith ... they follow the man because he gives them what they need. He answers their...
This section contains 1,668 words (approx. 5 pages at 400 words per page) |
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