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| Speak of the devil. A man takes the urinal next to me though there are six urinals and mine is the end. I frown. Here is minor breach of the unspoken rules between men for the use of the urinals. |
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Dr. Tom More about Max
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| Here's an oddity. ___ the unbeliever, a lapsed Jew, believes in the orderliness of creation, acts on it with energy and clarity. |
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| I, the believer, having swallowed the whole Thing, God Jews Christ Church, find the world a madhouse and a madhouse home. |
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| ___, the athiest sees things like Saint Thomas Aquinas, ranged, orderly, connected up. |
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Dr. Tom More - Samantha
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| The best of times were after mass on summer evenings when _____ and I would walk home in the violet dusk.... |
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| "You don't understand a purely spiritual relationship." |
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| Property rights Sunday is a major feast day in the A.C.C. A blue banner beside the crucifix shows Christ holding the American home, which has a picket fence, in his two hands. |
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| I, for example, am a Roman Catholic, albiet a bad one. I believe in the Holy Catholic Apostolic and Roman Church, in God the Father, in the election of the Jews, in Jesus Christ His Son our Lord who founded the Church on Peter his first vicar. |
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| Some years ago, however, I stopped eating Christ in Communion, stopped going to mss, and have since fallen into a disorderly life. |
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| I believe in God and the whole business but I love women best, music and science next, whiskey next, God fourth, and my fellow man hardly at all. |
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| If John is right, then I am a liar. Nevertheless, I still believe. |
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| But why should I be afraid? Tommorrow -- today -- I meet with the Director and hear the triumphant news about my lapsometer, the first caliper of the soul and the first hope of bridging the dread chasm that has rent the soul of Western man ever since the famous philosopher____ ripped the body loose from the mind and turned the very soul into a ghost that haunts its own house. |
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Tom on his mistake with Victor
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____ takes me as far as the Little Napoleon. There I make a mistake, a small one with small consequences but a mistake nevertheless, which I'd ordinaryily not have made. |
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Tom
Victor - helps Tom - African American
Leroy - White bartender?
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In that same second that he speaks, ____ knows better, for in that second _____ steps back and turns toward me and I can see that ____ sees that ____ is with me, sees it even before I can say, too late, "Thank you _____ for healping me up the hill."
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The terror comes from the piteousness, from good gone wrong and not knowing it, from Southern sweetness and cruelty, God why do I stay here? |
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talking about himself as the new Christ
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It is the new Christ, the spotted Christ, the maculate Christ, the sinful Christ. The old Christ died for our sins and it didn't work, we were not reconciled. The new Christ shall reconcile man with his sins. The new Christ lies drunk in a ditch.
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| "My God, what is it you do in church?" |
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| What she didn't understand, she being a spiritual being and seeing religion as spirit, was that it took religion to save me from the spirit world, from orbiting the earth like Lucifer and the angels, that it took nothing less than touching the thread of the misty interstates and eating Christ himself to make me mortal man again and let me inhabit my own flesh and love her in the morning. |
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| "I love classical music," whispers... |
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| "I wouldn't have missed this Poppa..." |
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| ____are, if truth be known, a bad lot. En masses they're as fickle as a mob, manipulable by any professor who'll stoop to it. They have, moreover, an infinite capacity for repeating dull truths and old lies with the insistence of self-discovery. |
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| "These things take time, Tom." |
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| "Doc, we operate on a cardinal principle, which we never violate. We never never 'do' anything to anybody. We only help people do what they want to do. We facilitate social interaction in order to isolate factors. If people show a tendency to interact in a certain way, we facilitate that interaction in order to accumulate reliable data." |
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| Read the story in the sunny quarter of a golf shelter. Hm. It seems the murderers who have terrorized this district for the past ten years turned out to be neither black guerrillas nor white Knotheads but rather a love community in the swamp. The leader is quoted as saying his family believes in love, the environment, and freedom of the individual. |
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