Keith [on semi hiatus]’s Reviews > Hunger > Status Update

And here you are without as much as spir in your lamp. But you do believe in grace, thank God for that, you haven't yet lost your faith! And then you shall fold your hands and affect the believer in grace like the very devil.

What if I removed my coat buttons, how much would I get for them? Maybe it wouldn't do me any good, buttons were just buttons. But I went ahead and examined them from all sides and found them to be as good as new.

I went back to my bench again and sat down. I was very restless, and the big barrel organ that had begun to play a little further on made me even more so. A regular metallic music, a snatch of Weber to which a little girl sings a mournful ballad. The poignant flute-like sound of the organ ripples through my blood, my nerves begin to vibrate as though resonating with it, and a moment later I fall back upon the...

'You don't know how to act the hypocrite, you fool! Yes, you should say, yes, I have called upon my God and Father! And you should utter your words to the most pitiful tune you have ever heard. So, once more! Yes, that's better. But you have to sigh, sigh like a colicky horse. That's it.'

When I got outside I stopped and said aloud in the middle of the street, clenching my fists, 'I will tell you one thing, my dear Lord - you are a so-and-so!' Then I nod furiously up at the clouds, gritting my teeth, 'I'll be damned, but you are a real so-and-so!'