Word: hasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crucifixion with him all his life. He had been merely exultant and curious at first, when he stood on the hill of Golgotha to watch. But he soon felt uneasy. Then the hill was caped in darkness, and the crucified man cried out, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" When Barabbas returned to his cronies, he morosely ignored their celebration of his release...
...affliction itself that the splendor of God's mercy shines, from its very depths, in the heart of its inconsolable bitterness. If, still persevering in our love, we fall to the point where the soul cannot keep back the cry 'My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?', if we remain at this point without ceasing to love, we end by touching something that is not affliction, not joy, something that is the central essence, necessary and pure, something not of the senses, common to joy and sorrow: the very love...
...story about how his dog had jumped into the river to bring him a water lily. The same night, he might be visited by one of his apocalyptic visions-mind-freezing apparitions that shrieked in his ears: "Actum est de te; perusti! [It is all over with thee; thou hast perished...
...asks, "utter a few words of wisdom and . . . comfort the reading classes." But the swami's brand of wisdom is P. T. Barnum's. "Canst thou," he inquires soulfully, "spare me thy trousers, thy jacket, thy shirt, thy shoes, thy cufflinks, thy watch, every accessory thou hast on thy person?" Only too happy to oblige, Hatterr is sent packing back to town in a dirty towel and is promptly fired. He finds out later that the swami is working on the side for a secondhand clothing outfit...
Blessed art thou, 0 Lord our God, King of the universe, who hast not made me a woman...