And what else did Christianity accomplish? he said. "Heres what Christianity accomplished. Christianity accomplished the mob. The mob. It accomplished not only your senseless butchery$$$ the extermination of all those involved in it$$$ black and white$$$ but the horror of lawless retaliation and repris$$$ alone hundred and thirty-one innocent niggers both slave and free cut down by the mob that roamed Southampton for a solid week$$$ searching vengeance. I reckon you didn't figure on that neither back then$$$ did you$$$ Reverend?"
At the age of fifty he was beginning to discover$$$ with a sense of panic$$$ that his whole life had been in the nature of a hangover$$$ with faintly unpleasant pleasures being atoned for by the dull unalleviated pain of guilt.
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
If you want to change something by Tuesday$$$ theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But$$$ if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix$$$ then theater has a longer half-life.
Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king. "Yes." "Unorthodox."
I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
The truth is$$$ we value your company$$$ for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices$$$ after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.
Uncertainty is the normal state.
[James] Joyce... an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized....
The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.