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Reader, be warned. Don't ever cause me to think you resemble Edward Drogo Mork. I may still harbor murder in my heart.
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"I ask you now to ask yourselves one simple foolish question--to say: was I born for this?--and I ask you please to
face it honestly and answer yea if you can or nay if you must
For this?"
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And I knew who the culprit was. I had know the moment I realized the manuscript was missing. I knew with a
certainty which shamed me, since I hadn't a shred of evidence. My novel had been stolen by a certain Edward
Drogo Mork (ak.a. Black Head or Schwartzkopf
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Hadn't Hemingway left a manuscript on a train?
Hadn't Carlyle's maid burned up The French Revolution? So
maybe...Maybe what? The novel had been novelnapped.
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If, to reach this point, you have actually read the novel, you
will know that its final chapter is short as a sneeze. I had reached that place myself, writing the book, when the manuscript was stolen.
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It was one of that sort that brought darkness to Goliath.
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Mr. Hufley reported that two wild girls
had twice ung stones through the woods at him.Furber chuckled
Really, he said. Stones, eh? Were they real or virtual? They didn't hit they hurt my feelings.Ah, well, they were spiritual, then the worst kind.
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he'd been intolerant with dispassion, puritanical for pleasure, and zealous out of boredom.
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but they were no defense.
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In seminary they'd been called The Great Hypotheses. The One and The Other. The Spirit and its Enemy. Yes and No. A and B. Truth against The Adversary, Father of Lies. A always won, while B...
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All his speeches...his beautiful barriers of words...
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Then as the sea had formed fish after its own, and the air had fashioned even eagles and wild gulls on the model of
the wind, so the earth was let to bring forth animals in the living likeness of itself cattle and snakes and bears, each
and every kind.
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He must husband his resources, Husband, What a word.
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Why were they whining then? . . whining, damn them, whining...
Because they'd have to give up their hope of living like an amimal and return to an honest, conscious, human life. The
Prospect was hard.
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They could not be scandalized- -impossible, they said. Indecent prepositions such as in, on, up,
merely made them smile, and the roundest exclamation broke upon them like a bubble's kiss, a butterfly's .
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The ladies egged him on; in Eve's name, they dared him; so he made love with discreet verbs and light nouns, deliot
conjunctions. They begged; they defied him to define... define everything.
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And this of course is the clue, for more
than any man Ï've, ever known, Omensetter seems beyond the reach of God.
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I called such purity in speaking,
such precision and force of phrase, the measure of Spiritual
space, the algebra of the inward life.
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There were ancient cities. Think.Palmyra.Nineveh.Corinth, Mat's indifference was a pose. Acre Tyre. A performance for my performance. Issus. Damascus. Gaza, Rhodes. Now gone. All
lost.
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Is this the feeling? I requtre an an-
swer not a hiccough. Nannerbantan? TuK? Well he does. He
does, doesn't heP Well? WellP And whatf And what shall ve
conclude from all of this then?
We must conclude he is the worst.
He is the worst.
Therefore.
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that he not be let to cross the limit of the living yet or that he cross quite painlessly if that were the wish of his Father or
that he find some comfort among the dead, and merciful rewards, and rest
from his wife, one thought, for who
could stand her?
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that he not be let to cross the limit of the living yet or that he cross quite painlessly if that were the wish of his Father or
that he find some comfort among the dead, and merciful rewards, and rest
from his wife, one thought, for who
could stand her?
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disappearing like the brief rise of the fish, a spirit even, bent on escape, lifting & lifting, then almost out of sight going under or rather never lifting from that side of things again ... skipping
there, skipping & skipping until it accomplished the bottom.
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How differently we give the semblance of life to the stone, he thought. And it did seem a stone until it skipped from the water...effortlessly lifting...then skipped
again, and skipped, and skipped
a marvel of transcending...disappearing #Gass25

Finally he sought out Omensetter himself when Omensetter was strolling in the fields. Why do you inhabit me, he cried,
why do you possess my tongue and turn it from the way it wants to go? Leave me, Omensetter, leave us all.
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"Omensetter's magic," while from his window he would watch the pigeons wheeling to occupy his eyes.
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There was a glow of a white shirt...not Mat's... and a rumpled burlap-colored man. But no white shirt, he remembered.
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Thus. Everything so bitterly won, lost. His words had flown like finches. Then the trap of those hands. Why?
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My hands were pinched with prayer and my ankles bruised. But He broke
my bones like a lion. Day to night, He brought me to my end.
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