Word: deviled
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...blues is a black devil face, I said: devil black is the blues' face; it's black in the mornin' beige in the sun, and blue black all night long...
...glad I'm black; pitch-forking devil black: black, black, black; black absolute of life complete, greedfully grabbing life's living...
...baby, said to me, daddy; sit down and listen, candy: the blues is in your blood, black down deep in your skin and the devil rides on your back. The mean black blues got my daddy, those black mean blues got you, daddy; you're black in the mornin' beige in the sun, candy black all night long...
...life passed uneventfully in the nunnery. Then she looked out a window and saw Gian Paolo Osio, a handsome young man who lived on a fine estate next to the convent. "After I had seen Osio twice," Sister Virginia said, "it seemed as though I were forced by the Devil to go to that window." She meant it literally. Like everyone else in those days, Sister Virginia believed that Satan and all his devils roamed the world to snare men's souls...
Sister Virginia fought the Devil. She locked herself in her cell, flogged her naked back until the blood came, sent precious gifts to Our Lady of Loreto, prayed endlessly that "the Lord would free me from that passion." But several nuns who were Sister Virginia's close friends acted as if they were on Satan's payroll: when the time came, it was one of them who tossed the convent key over the wall to Osio...