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Who was she to have a man according to her own desire? It was not for her to create, but to recognize a man created by God.

He had no use for people, nor for words.

Then she saw him on Sunday, dressed up in Sunday clothes, trying to impress her. And he looked ridiculous.

Why afraid? The secret, shameful things are most terribly beautiful.

And very early she learned to harden her soul in resistance and denial of all that was outside her, harden herself upon her own being.

So very soon, she came to believe in the outward malevolence that was against her.

the lust for destruction

Where she was delivered over to him, in her very soft femaleness, he seemed to lacerate and desecrate her.

It did not matter how many sins her boys were accused of, so long as they were not stupid, or inferior.

She scarcely noticed the outer things at all. What was outside was outside, non-existent.