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“The nuns, it seemed, were always fascinated by my father. Perhaps they sniffed some tragedy, some rich life of sin behind his disappearances, or found my mother’s devotion to a man who was seldom there similar to their own calling….”
— Sep 12, 2024 01:15PM
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“She looks at his blue eyes lit by the yellow bulb. They’re nice eyes, but then most eyes are.
‘Faces without eyes,’ she tells him, ‘would all look alike. Like potatoes. Or rocks.’
‘Or clay before the sculptor gets to it.’
‘Or elbows.’”
— Sep 22, 2024 12:22PM
‘Faces without eyes,’ she tells him, ‘would all look alike. Like potatoes. Or rocks.’
‘Or clay before the sculptor gets to it.’
‘Or elbows.’”
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“She recalls a time when she couldn’t say Jesus without lowering her voice and bowing her head; when it was a word she said mostly to herself and only in prayer. Now it’s on the lips of every TV preacher and country-and-western singer and leftover hippie—on bumper stickers and billboards. Like having the Coca-Cola Corporation for your personal friend and savior.”
— Sep 16, 2024 03:40PM
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“She nods, feeling again like the child hiding in the dark basement, crouched on the cold linoleum behind an open door. The child who hears (her stomach dancing) the footsteps approaching, stopping nearby, turning and then walking away, up the stairs to the light, to other, perhaps easier, discoveries. Feeling like the child in that minute when the hiding becomes being lost, forgotten.”
— Sep 15, 2024 04:01PM
