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...When I read the manuscript and told him I felt a bit over-exposed, [Kidder] expressed a bit of genuine sympathy with my predicament but did not offer to change anything,” Farmer writes in an e-mail...
...According to a close friend and advisor to Hill who spoke to TIME shortly after the execution the manuscript is more than a call to action, or martyrdom, as his supporters term it. Hill details not only how to stalk an abortion doctor, but also advises potential martyrs on a number of other details, such as how to prepare themselves mentally and emotionally to kill a law enforcement officer who might be escorting the doctor. You have to kill the officer first, according to Hill...
...Much of the book draws from Hill's own experience and also contains theological arguments supporting the use of lethal force to prevent abortions. The manuscript has not been submitted to publishers but Hill's backers, for the most part pastors who lead small congregations or splinter groups on the extreme edge of the anti-abortion movement, promised him it would be published in one form or another. Whether there is anyone willing to actually kill, then die for their crimes, as Hill was, is another matter...
...careful look at the manuscript peels back yet another layer. Inserted into the sentence about his pilgrim's progress up Market Street is a phrase, written in the margin, in which he notes that he passed by the house of his future wife Deborah Read and that "she, standing at the door, saw me and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward ridiculous appearance." So here we have, in a brief paragraph, the multilayered character known so fondly to his author as Benjamin Franklin: as a young man, then seen through the eyes of his older self...
Sometimes drafting at her kitchen table and other times working in the sanctuary of Radcliffe Yard, Gilligan wrote the manuscript of what became In a Different Voice...