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Amy was profoundly shocked. "A little over an hour ago, our bus was attacked by three men in ski masks. They definitely knew me, and probably Dan, too. We fought them off, but it could've gone either way." "Like if they'd used a cookie truck instead of a gas tanker," Dan added. "Nobody's scared of Oreos.

A bronze plaque read: GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS Dan made a face. "Get a load of the guy with the funny name." "I think that's Pliny the younger, the famous Roman writer," Amy supplied. She bent down to read the English portion of the tablet. "Right. In A.D. 79, Pliny chronicled the destruction of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. It's one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of a major disaster." Dan yawned. "Doesn't this remind you of the clue hunt? You know–you telling me a bunch of boring stuff, and me not listening?

When you climb the tower of a cathedral it becomes shorter, as a result of your added weight, by a very, very tiny amount, but it really does become shorter.

Just take it from me," Donovan said. "Stay well clear of the warden. Some here think he's the devil. I don't, I don't believe in that religious talk, but I know evil when I see it. He's something rotten they dragged from the bowels of the earth, something they patched together from darkness and filth. He'll be the death of us all, every single one of us here in Furnace. Only question is when." "I know one thing," I added. "The warden certainly brings out peoples dramatic sides." Zee and Donovan both laughed through their noses.

A recipe is a guideline. Adding, subtracting, evolving it - that is part of the pleasure.

He came to chat with me the day of my being discharged, advising that I not stay at the dog fight until the last dog was dead. I was a kid and made little counsel. Now that I am a bigger kid, I see the value--belatedly--added. Yet I also see the loss of life in the protecting, first of all, of oneself. Better to give oneself away. Dead f*ck the dog and so on.

Io mi diverto ad avere trent’anni, io me li bevo come un liquore i trent’anni: non li appassisco in una precoce vecchiaia ciclostilata su carta carbone. Ascoltami, Cernam, White, Bean, Armstrong, Gordon, Chaffee: sono stupendi i trent’anni, ed anche i trentuno, i trentadue, i trentatré, i trentaquattro, i trentacinque! Sono stupendi perché sono liberi, ribelli, fuorilegge, perchè è finita l’angoscia dell’attesa, non è incominciata la malinconia del declino, perché siamo lucidi, finalmente, a trent’anni! Se siamo religiosi, siamo religiosi convinti. Se siamo atei, siamo atei convinti. Se siamo dubbiosi, siamo dubbiosi senza vergogna. E non temiamo le beffe dei ragazzi perché anche noi siamo giovani, non temiamo i rimproveri degli adulti perchè anche noi siamo adulti. Non temiamo il peccato perché abbiamo capito che il peccato è un punto di vista, non temiamo la disubbidienza perché abbiamo scoperto che la disubbidienza è nobile. Non temiamo la punizione perché abbiamo concluso che non c’è nulla di male ad amarci se ci incontriamo, ad abbandonarci se ci perdiamo: i conti non dobbiamo più farli con la maestra di scuola e non dobbiamo ancora farli col prete dell’olio santo. Li facciamo con noi stessi e basta, col nostro dolore da grandi. Siamo un campo di grano maturo, a trent’anni, non più acerbi e non ancora secchi: la linfa scorre in noi con la pressione giusta, gonfia di vita. È viva ogni nostra gioia, è viva ogni nostra pena, si ride e si piange come non ci riuscirà mai più, si pensa e si capisce come non ci riuscirà mai più. Abbiamo raggiunto la cima della montagna e tutto è chiaro là in cima: la strada per cui siamo saliti, la strada per cui scenderemo. Un po’ ansimanti e tuttavia freschi, non succederà più di sederci nel mezzo a guardare indietro e in avanti, a meditare sulla nostra fortuna: e allora com’è che in voi non è così? Com’è che sembrate i miei padri schiacciati di paure, di tedio, di calvizie? Ma cosa v’hanno fatto, cosa vi siete fatti? A quale prezzo pagate la Luna? La Luna costa cara, lo so. Costa cara a ciascuno di noi: ma nessun prezzo vale quel campo di grano, nessun prezzo vale quella cima di monte. Se lo valesse, sarebbe inutile andar sulla Luna: tanto varrebbe restarcene qui. Svegliatevi dunque, smettetela d’essere così razionali, ubbidienti, rugosi! Smettetela di perder capelli, di intristire nella vostra uguaglianza! Stracciatela la carta carbone. Ridete, piangete, sbagliate. Prendetelo a pugni quel Burocrate che guarda il cronometro. Ve lo dico con umilità, con affetto, perché vi stimo, perché vi vedo migliori di me e vorrei che foste molto migliori di me. Molto: non così poco. O è ormai troppo tardi? O il Sistema vi ha già piegato, inghiottito? Sì, dev’esser così.

there was more to modern mining than logic. The best engineers had feel. It was a sensitivity born of experience, of talent, and even of something like love, with which they commanded, not only the mountains, but the machine they rode and directed. Now this too was added to the list of man’s endeavors for which some special talent was needed.

He waved cheerfully, then opened the door, tripped over the threshold, and as his balance was already impaired, nearly went face down on the floor for the second time that day. He caught himself, hung on to the side of the counter, and waited for the pub kitchen to stop revolving. With the careful steps of the drunk, he walked over to the cupboard to get out a pan for frying, a pot for boiling. Shawn was singing in his break-your-heart voice, about the cold nature of Peggy Gordon. And with one eye closed, his body swaying gently, he dripped lemon juice into a bowl. “Oh, fuck me, Shawn. You are half pissed.” “More than three-quarters if the truth be known.” He lost track of the juice and added a bit more to be safe. “And how are you, Aidan, darling?” “Get way from there before you poison someone.” Insulted, Shawn swiveled around and had to brace a hand on the counter to stay upright. “I’m drunk, not a murderer. I can make a g.d. fish cake in me sleep. This is my kitchen, I’ll thank you to remember, and I give the orders here.” He poked himself in the chest with his thumb on the claim and nearly knocked himself on his ass. Gathering dignity, he lifted his chin. “So go on with you while I go about my work.” “ What have you done to yourself?” “The devil cat caught me hand. Forgetting his work, Shawn lifted a hand to scowl at the red gashes. Oh, but I’ve got plans for him, you can be sure of that.” “At the moment, I’d lay odds on the cat. Do you know anything about putting fish cakes together?” Aidan asked Darcy. “Not a bloody thing,” she said cheerfully. “Then go and call Kathy Duffy, would you, and ask if she can spare us an hour or so, as we have an emergency?” “An emergency?” Shawn looked glassily around. “Where?

Until Harriet Hemings left in 1822, Jefferson had never freed a female slave. There may have been several reasons for this, but we know at least one that was probably the most important to him. Two years before Harriet Hemings left Monticello, Jefferson wrote a letter to his former son-in-law John Eppes in which he said that he considered female slaves to be far more valuable than male slaves. Why? Because female slaves had children and, thus, added to capital.43 At the time of Harriet’s departure, Jefferson was in dire financial circumstances. Bad economic times in Virginia, along with Jefferson’s expensive way of life, had set him on

The nations of the earth through the centuries of time have waged war to gain territory. I think ours is the only nation on the face of the earth which has not claimed territory gained out of conflict. I have stood in the American Military Cemetery in Suresnes, France, where are buried some who died in the First World War. Among those was my eldest brother. It is a quiet and hallowed place, a remembrance of great sacrifice 'to make the world safe for democracy.' No territory was claimed by America as recompense for the sacrifices of those buried there. I have stood in reverence in the beautiful American military cemetery on the outskirts of Manila in the Philippines. There marble crosses and the Star of David stand in perfect symmetry marking the burial places of some 17,000 Americans who lost their lives in the Second World War. Surrounding that sacred ground are marble colonnades on which are incised the names of another 35,000 who were lost in the battles of the Pacific during that terrible conflict. After so great a sacrifice there was victory, but there was never a claim for territory except for some small islands over which we have had guardianship. I have been up and down South Korea from the 38th parallel in the North to Pusan in the South, and I have seen the ridges and the valleys where Americans fought and died, not to save their own land but to preserve freedom for people who were strangers to them but whom they acknowledged to be brothers under the fatherhood of God. Not an inch of territory was sought for nor added to the area of the United States out of that conflict. I have been from one end of South Vietnam to the other in the days of war. More than 55,000 Americans died in the sultry, suffocating heat of that strange and foreign place fighting in the cause of human liberty without ambition for territory. In no instance--not in the First World War or the Second, not in the Korean War or in Vietnam--did our nation seize and hold territory for itself as a prize of war.

The majority of the Great Pyramid of Giza’s limestone casing stones are removed by Bahri Sultan An-Nasir Nasir-ad-Din al-Hasan to build fortresses and mosques in Cairo. 1358 

On that June 1957 morning, the eight men didn’t have an official contract, so instead they all signed a crisp dollar bill. One by one, these technology pioneers—Robert Noyce, Julius Blank, Victor Grinich, Jean Hoerni, Eugene Kleiner, Jay Last, Gordon Moore, and Sheldon Roberts—added a signature to their own declaration of independence, framing what would be a history-making choice: they would pursue their visionary ideas inside the structure of a new, innovative company.

Chaucer added three Europeans, Bernard de Gordon, a Scot, who had taught medicine in Salerno, the leading medieval university, in 1300;

The circle between Madison Avenue and Wall Street was complete; they were inexorably linked, in a relationship developed in ten short years, during which the ad men had created an ambience invaluable to the continuing popularity of stock speculation. The limitless, desirable, and expensive goods coming onto the market—often products of companies quoted on the Stock Exchange—could only be sold by determined advertising campaigns. If those campaigns failed, the market would slump. To maintain his place in consumer society, a man was told he needed a car, radio, icebox, and refrigerator; his wife required a washing machine, automatic furnace, and one of the modish pastel-hued toilets. To complete their domestic bliss they would have the latest in bathrooms: a shrine of stunning magnificence, containing, among other items, “a dental lavatory of vitreous china, twice fired.” To buy it would cost the average American six months’ salary. But paying was no problem; there were the installment plans. It was also part of the advertising philosophy that it was no longer enough to buy a car, radio, or refrigerator. People must have the latest model—junking the old one, even though it was still useful. Failure to do so would cause factories to close from the Atlantic to the Pacific, ending what some newspapers called “the golden era.” To protect it, they told their readers, was the patriotic duty of every American; one way to express that was, “to buy until it hurts.

They have found no evidence of a human presence here before AD 1250, and expert consensus puts arrival at around that time.

When the sun came up fully, the ice field began to glow in mauves and corals, a breathtaking sight. There was one iceberg with a double peak about two hundred feet high. To Lucy Duff Gordon the illuminated bergs looked like giant opals, and May Futrelle noted how they glistened like rock quartz, though one of them, she thought, was doubtless the murderer. The scene reminded Hugh Woolner of photographs of an Antarctic expedition. Seven-year-old Douglas Spedden raised a few smiles in Boat 3 by exclaiming to his nurse, “Oh Muddie, look at the beautiful North Pole with no Santa Claus on it!” Daisy Spedden recorded in her diary that as their boat was rowed toward rescue, “the tragedy of the situation sank deep into our hearts as we saw the Carpathia standing amidst the few bits of wreckage with the pitifully small number of lifeboats coming up to her from different directions.” After racing through the night to the Titanic’s distress position, the Carpathia had spotted Fourth Officer Boxhall’s green flares and had headed for them. “Shut down your engines and take us aboard,” Boxhall shouted up as the Carpathia drew alongside Boat 2 at 4:10 a.m. “I have only one sailor,” he added, as the boat tossed on the choppy swells. “All right,” came back the voice of the Carpathia’s captain, Arthur Rostron.

оf 2020, оvеr 722 mіllіоn рrоfеѕѕіоnаlѕ uѕе LіnkеdIn tо сultіvаtе their саrееrѕ аnd buѕіnеѕѕеѕ

Furthеr, іt'ѕ a place to ѕhаrе уоur еxреrtіѕе and buіld thе truѕt аnd rарроrt nееdеd tо сultіvаtе nеw сlіеntѕ аnd сuѕtоmеrѕ.

Gеttіng Stаrtеd оn LіnkеdIn

LіnkеdIn аlѕо аllоwѕ уоu tо рublіѕh full аrtісlеѕ, vіа іtѕ Publіѕhіng Plаtfоrm.

SlіdеShаrе іѕ аnоthеr орtіоn for dеlіvеrіng hіgh-ԛuаlіtу соntеnt. It'ѕ еmbеddеd іntо LіnkеdIn, аnd аllоwѕ уоu tо post рrеѕеntаtіоnѕ аnd іnfоgrарhісѕ.

Find Nеw

Bооѕt Yоur Orgаnіzаtіоn'ѕ Profile LіnkеdIn саn іnсrеаѕе thе vіѕіbіlіtу оf уоur buѕіnеѕѕ,

Sales Nаvіgаtоr, аlѕо аllоwѕ уоu tо rеасh оut to likely рrоѕресtѕ

So, соnѕіdеr hоw уоur organization's uѕе of LіnkеdIn аlіgnѕ wіth іtѕ оvеrаll ѕосіаl mеdіа ѕtrаtеgу . Obѕеrvе Professional Etiquette оn LіnkеdIn Suссеѕѕ оn LіnkеdIn dереndѕ оn dеvеlоріng аnd mаіntаіnіng a gооd rерutаtіоn .

рісkіng thе rіght objective.

сhоѕе thе іnduѕtrу, lосаtіоn, аnd ѕеnіоrіtу you’re tаrgеtіng аnd LіnkеdIn wіll gеnеrаtе thе lаtеѕt trеndіng tорісѕ fоr thоѕе dеѕіgnаtеd fіltеrѕ.

Lіkе thе Fасеbооk ріxеl, you саn іnѕtаll thіѕ tag оnсе аnd wаtсh thе dаtа соmе іn

Bonus: Yоu can also ѕеt up LіnkеdIn rеtаrgеtіng аdѕ оnсе уоu hаvе thе Inѕіght tаg installed and a ѕtеаdу аmоunt оf ѕіtе vіѕіtоrѕ

Hеrе’ѕ аll оf thе іnfо уоu’ll nееd fоr each аd tуре аnd оbjесtіvе as you bеgіn сrеаtіng аdѕ for LіnkеdIn:

Hоwеvеr, аwаrеnеѕѕ іѕ аll аbоut getting реорlе tо ѕее уоur аd, not асt оn іt, ѕо why wоuld anyone сhооѕе thіѕ аd? Sіmрlу рut, thіѕ оbjесtіvе helps іnсrеаѕе уоur rеасh (іf thаt’ѕ what уоu саrе аbоut), gеt mоrе fоllоwеrѕ tо уоur раgе, аnd еngаgе wіth a nеw аudіеnсе.

уоu саn uѕе аwаrеnеѕѕ tо wаrm uр рrоѕресtѕ bеfоrе rеасh оut.

уоu wаnt vіѕіtѕ, vіеwѕ, аnd асtіоnѕ (аlbеіt іn a nоn-соmmеrсіаl wау).

this оbjесtіvе іѕ аn еxсеllеnt ѕtаrt fоr аnу асtіоn уоu wаnt реорlе tо tаkе оn уоur site.

іnсrеаѕе thе ԛuаntіtу аnd ԛuаlіtу оf уоur fоllоwіng

Thе more реорlе thаt fоllоw уоu аnd thе mоrе еngаgеd thеу аrе, thе cheaper іt wіll bе tо рrоmоtе уоur content.

dеvеlоріng thоught lеаdеrѕhір, brаnd аwаrеnеѕѕ, аnd trаffіс асԛuіѕіtіоn, uѕіng thе vіdео vіеwѕ оbjесtіvе іn LіnkеdIn wіll hеlр іnсrеаѕе соntеnt dіѕtrіbutіоn

gеttіng реорlе wіth whоm уоu’vе engaged bеfоrе tо tаkе a ѕресіfіс асtіоn. Thаt асtіоn соuld bе аn іnfоrmаtіоn еxсhаngе fоr lеаd gеnеrаtіоn, a dоwnlоаd, a ѕіgnuр, оr a jоb аррlісаtіоn

Thе mоrе dаtа LіnkеdIn gаthеrѕ оn thе tуреѕ оf реорlе thаt соmрlеtе уоur оn-ѕіtе соnvеrѕіоn, thе better іt wіll орtіmіzе уоur аdѕ tо show tо реорlе wіth ѕіmіlаr рrоfіlеѕ.

Alоngѕіdе basic

аudіеnсе еxраnѕіоn tо іnсrеаѕе rеасh (аnd spend lеѕѕ)

аudіеnсе еxраnѕіоn uѕеѕ LіnkеdIn’ѕ аlgоrіthmѕ tо fіnd and rеасh реорlе wіth ѕіmіlаr аttrіbutеѕ tо уоur tеѕtеd tаrgеt аudіеnсе.

Uѕе mаtсhеd аudіеnсеѕ fоr rеtаrgеtіng

Mаtсhеd аudіеnсеѕ lеt уоu tаrgеt реорlе whо hаvе vіѕіtеd уоur ѕіtе, ѕіgnеd uр for a gаtеd ріесе оf соntеnt (thіnk a wеbіnаr or whіtе paper), оr who hаvе dоnе аnу tуре оf buѕіnеѕѕ with уоu (thіnk a dеmо trial оr a proposal).

tаrgеtіng уоur еmаіl lіѕt.

Yоu саn аlѕо mіx аnd match matched аudіеnсеѕ wіth аudіеnсе expansion to rеасh a muсh wіdеr, but ѕtіll tаrgеtеd, аudіеnсе.

matched аudіеnсеѕ for ассоunt bаѕеd marketing

hіgh-іntеnt ассоuntѕ?

еxроrt lіѕtѕ of соmраnіеѕ vіѕіtіng уоur wеbѕіtе, uрlоаd tо LіnkеdIn аѕ аn ассоunt lіѕt іn уоur mаtсhеd аudіеnсеѕ, аnd uѕе thіѕ dаtа tо роwеr your LіnkеdIn ABM аd саmраіgn.

Stер 1: How tо рісk a wіnnіng LіnkеdIn аd оbjесtіvе

Wеbѕіtе Vіѕіtѕ

Engаgеmеnt

Vіdео Vіеwѕ

Thеѕе numbеrѕ wіll bе аffесtеd bу your dаіlу budgеtѕ аnd bіdѕ—whісh уоu’ll ѕеlесt ѕhоrtlу—аnd аrе a grеаt wау tо bеnсhmаrk уоur саmраіgn'ѕ performance vеrѕuѕ LіnkеdIn’ѕ рrеdісtіоnѕ.

Stер 3: Hоw tо сhооѕе thе right LіnkеdIn аd type

Single іmаgе аdѕ

The problem with all of this, of course, is that it tends to leave us with little that is normative for two broad areas of concern — Christian experience and Christian practice. There is no express teaching on such matters as the mode of baptism, the age of those who are to be baptized, which charismatic phenomenon is to be in evidence when one receives the Spirit, or the frequency of the Lord’s Supper, to cite but a few examples. Yet these are precisely the areas where there is so much division among Christians. Invariably, in such cases people argue that this is what the earliest believers did, whether such practices are merely described in the narratives of Acts or found by implication from what is said in the Epistles. Scripture simply does not expressly command that baptism must be by immersion, or that infants are to be baptized, or that all genuine conversions must be as dramatic as Paul’s, or that Christians are to be baptized in the Spirit evidenced by tongues as a second work of grace, or that the Lord’s Supper is to be celebrated every Sunday. What do we do, then, with something like baptism by immersion? What does Scripture say? In this case it can be argued from the meaning of the word itself, from the one description of baptism in Acts of going “down into the water” and coming “up out of the water” (8:38 – 39), and from Paul’s analogy of baptism as death, burial, and resurrection (Rom 6:1 – 3) that immersion was the presupposition of baptism in the early church. It was nowhere commanded precisely because it was presupposed. On the other hand, it can be pointed out that without a baptismal tank in the local church in Samaria (!), the people who were baptized there would have had great difficulty being immersed. Geographically, there simply is no known supply of water there to have made immersion a viable option. Did they pour water over them, as an early church manual, the Didache (ca. AD 100), suggests should be done where there is not enough cold, running water or tepid, still water for immersion? We simply do not know, of course. The Didache makes it abundantly clear that immersion was the norm, but it also makes it clear that the act itself is far more important than the mode. Even though the Didache is not a biblical document, it is a very early, orthodox Christian document, and it may help us by showing how the early church made pragmatic adjustments in this area where Scripture is not explicit. The normal (regular) practice served as the norm. But because it was only normal, it did not become normative. We would probably do well to follow this lead and not confuse normalcy with normativeness in the sense that all Christians must do a given thing or else they are disobedient to God’s Word.

Fall Ferguson, attorney and former president of the Association of Size Diversity and Health, later added that healthism “emerges as the assumption that people should pursue health. It’s the contempt in the nonsmoker’s attitude toward smokers; it’s the ubiquitous sneer against couch potatoes. Healthism includes the idea that anyone who isn’t healthy just isn’t trying hard enough or has some moral failing or sin to account for.”10

When we can describe how patterns of encounters among individuals adjust outcomes in changing situations, we have explained collective behavior and it is no longer emergent. Then we can move past emergence to explanations, and abandon the idea that collective behavior is added on top of individual behavior to create something extra

The leader – the initiator – of the ferocious protests against this mild relaxation of the Anti-Catholic laws was a curious individual even to his contemporaries. Lord George Gordon’s unusual appearance – long red hair to his shoulders, and slightly protuberant blue eyes – added to the startling impression which he left upon observers, and inspired Horace Walpole to call him ‘the lunatic apostle’.

One way to find a sweetheart is to put an ad in the paper, another is to wait and see what the cat drags in.

Our 1 Corinthians is an occasional, ad hoc response to the situation that had developed in the Corinthian church between the time Paul left the city, sometime in A.D. 51-52,13 and the writing of our letter approximately three years later. The difficulty in determining the nature of that situation is intrinsic to the text. Paul

For the overall economy, the official GDP numbers miss the value of new goods and services added to the tune of about 0.4 percent of additional growth each year, according to economist Robert Gordon.*

When I was a child, I just assumed that in order for a sailboat to go, say, east, the wind had to be blowing from the west to the east. I was amazed to learn that, no matter which way the wind blew, a sailboat could always get to where it wanted to go—if it had a skilled sailor at the helm. To me, the five forces are kind of like the wind, the direction that competition within an industry is moving. Strategy is about positioning the firm relative to the prevailing winds in a way to make sure that the firm gets to where it wants to go, no matter what direction the wind is blowing.” {...]. “In fact,” added Gordon, “some of the most successful firms in the world are successful precisely because they have figured how to use very unfavorable industry winds—high rivalry, high threat of entry, and so forth—to their advantage. Look at Walmart, Southwest Airlines, Nucor Steel, Toyota, Starbucks. These firms have played in some pretty unattractive industries—at least according to a five forces analysis—and still they have been successful.

When I was a child, I just assumed that in order for a sailboat to go, say, east, the wind had to be blowing from the west to the east. I was amazed to learn that, no matter which way the wind blew, a sailboat could always get to where it wanted to go—if it had a skilled sailor at the helm. To me, the five forces are kind of like the wind, the direction that competition within an industry is moving. Strategy is about positioning the firm relative to the prevailing winds in a way to make sure that the firm gets to where it wants to go, no matter what direction the wind is blowing.” [...]. “In fact,” added Gordon, “some of the most successful firms in the world are successful precisely because they have figured how to use very unfavorable industry winds—high rivalry, high threat of entry, and so forth—to their advantage. Look at Walmart, Southwest Airlines, Nucor Steel, Toyota, Starbucks. These firms have played in some pretty unattractive industries—at least according to a five forces analysis—and still they have been successful.

Double or Nothing endured because of the nimble ad-libbing of its hosts and because, over the years, the show gained a reputation for double entendres and unexpected embarrassment. By far the most sensational of these came to be known as the “waitress episode,” which was so shocking to audiences of that innocent late 1940s era that its content could not even be hinted in the press (reporter Shirley Gordon mentioned it in Radio Life years later without ever telling her readers what she was talking about). While interviewing a waitress, O’Keefe asked if she’d had any experiences she could share on the radio. Yes, she said, she once had a friend, male, who had had some psychological problems. She didn’t know what she could do for him, but a mutual friend had suggested that he “get a good-looking girl like you and take her home and just have a big screwing party.” O’Keefe hustled her through the quiz fast, but the damage was done: the show had been carried live to the East Coast, and CBS was inundated with angry calls. The network ordered all its West Coast affiliates (which had transcribed the show for broadcast in a later timeslot) to cancel it and destroy the transcriptions. Obviously, at least one was saved: the show exists on tape, a nice curiosity piece.

Nothing," says the late General GORDON , "can be more abject and miserable than the usual conception of God *** Imagine to yourself what pleasure it would be to Him to burn us, or to torture us. Can we believe any human being capable of creating us for such a purpose? We credit God with attributes which are utterly hateful to the meanest of men *** I say that Christian Pharisees deny Christ *** A hard, cruel set they are, from high to low. When one thinks of the real agony one has gone through in consequence of false teaching, it makes human nature angry with the teachers who have added to the bitterness of life.

Oh yes, I am of the opinion, too, that war is a very bad thing. I do not want war. My tribe does not want war. But,’ he added, unconsciously echoing the shibboleth common to all mankind, ‘how can we live at peace with our neighbours when they want war and are always making war?

He talks to me about cars, to Barnstorm about sports, and to Mateo about Game of Thrones. He talks to Elaine—I guess car dealers don’t worry about being head-butted down stairs or tossed into garbage dumpsters. He talks to Kiana about practically everything. He asks Rahim’s opinion on the art for new ads for Terranova Motors, and Rahim never so much as yawns when he’s around.

I see you on television. You’ll jump through hoops to provide fast relief from painful athlete’s foot fungus.” “That’s not me,” I tell her. “I get you a great deal on a new or used vehicle.