Fox’s Reviews > The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World > Status Update

"Implicit in this mimesis of restorability is the belief that catastrophes are themselves (not simply narratively but actually) reconstructable" we'll keep trying

"Even after the resurrection, he remained embodied: at the very end of Luke, he invited the apostles to look at his hands and to "handle" him to assure themselves he is not a spirit (24:36–40). While they are still "disbelieving for joy," he asks the question that is the universal signal among sentient creatures that they are sentient: "Have you anything here to eat?" .......... no words

[...] the story will sometimes suddenly pause, break into a brief spread of names, then continue once more. In some ways, this most contracted instance of the alternation is the most haunting, for it is as though the large figure is suddenly for a moment swallowed into a group of figures on a dusty road, from which a moment later we watch him break away and emerge toward us once more.

"[...] the story will sometimes suddenly pause, break into a brief spread of names, then continue once more. In some ways, this most contracted instance of the alternation is the most haunting, for it is as though the large figure is suddenly for a moment swallowed into a group of figures on a dusty road, from which a moment later we watch him break away and emerge toward us once more." 3