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...every one of the six stories which make up the book, Evil is the dominant theme. Wilbur Flick, the poor little rich boy, after running through a couple of wives and a great deal of money, finally sops his conscience by becoming the angel of a minuscule Communist front organization. Ellen Terhune's entire life is oppressed by her guilty sense of the past. The Manichean heresy that God and the Devil are each in control of half the world, a heresy which the New England ministers of the seventeenth century all unwittingly dramatized into the permanent fabric of American...
...Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.-George Bernard Shaw...
...apparently took notes on the margins of his diaper and kept a careful diary long before he reached puberty--how else could conversations heard at the age of eight be so precisely reported? It's all reminiscent of the passages in the egocentric Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward Angel:" "Lying darkly in his crib, washed, powdered, and fed, he thought quietly of many things before he dropped off to sleep . . . he grew sick as he thought of the weary distance before him, the lack of coordination of the centres of control, the undisciplined and rowdy bladder, the helpless exhibition...
...behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow. And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead...
...angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and behold, he goeth before you into Galilee...