Word: crucifixions
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...Pilate is an intellectual, and a nut about philosophy, and won't bite. From her vantage point near Herod's Palace, Claudia describes Christ's passion in gory detail: "Jesus, bound to a pillar, and standing in a red pool of his own blood." After the Crucifixion, Pilate loses favor with Rome, and ends his life a sick pauper, trembling on the verge of-is it faith? "Ye who pray," Claudia cries, at the thrilling climax, "pray now for Pontius...
...furnish an especially vivid record of the medieval mind. One can almost hear the dogs yelping in the boar hunt of Louis Malet, Sire de Graville and Grand Admiral of France. The golden Flagellation, done around 1350, shows the medieval struggle with the problems of perspective, while the exquisite Crucifixion, painted nearly a century later by an artisan in the workshop of the master of the Rohan Hours, has a deep landscape background with towns in the distance...
...Like all great tragic heroes, Ahab dies in the glory and blasphemy of a rebellious pride that will not accept a universe that is not man-centered. And since the tragic hero bears with him the stifled rebellion of lesser men, his death is awesomely like a crucifixion...
...left inside to be taken by surprise . . ."A man is stationed at a prison: "For the first time in his life he had others at his mercy. Any man who has ever been a prisoner longs to be a guard. Children like to re-enact the crucifixion. Rejected lovers dream of murder. The tortured are fascinated by the rack. In their sleep the humbled pull down whole towns...
...only prisoner with a claim to fame was Edwin A. Walker. He had arrived in Mississippi the day before the battle, proclaiming that the court orders on Meredith were part of "the conspiracy of the crucifixion by Antichrist conspirators of the Supreme Court." On the night of the battle, he was observed by newsmen and a campus minister to be holding forth at a sort of informal command post. Every now and then somebody would run up to him and ask for military counsel. One man who got close to him reported that "there was a wild, dazed look...