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Blake was deeply anticlerical; to him, organized religion meant oppression--"As the catterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys." His relation to Christian belief was both saturated in the imagery of the Bible and extremely nondoctrinal. He was trained as an engraver, not a "high" artist, which meant that a certain resentment of official art and its newly founded instrument, the Royal Academy, was built into him. Like many other such craftsmen at the time, he was possibly a Mason. Certainly he felt like an outsider...
...Bronze" gets published in chapter format as a regular comicbook, you can continue to enjoy the work without waiting for the next big volume. (The first issue of the second volume should be arriving soon.) You almost pity poor Eric Shanower. By the end of this first book a priest prophesies the Trojan war to last nine years. At the rate Shanower is going, it may take a little longer...
...most responsible for NAFTA Man's ascendance in McAllen is a former Catholic priest turned economic hustler named, coincidentally, Mike Allen. As president of the local economic-development office, the 63-year-old executive uses local tax funds to attract business to McAllen--as well as to its Mexican sister city, Reynosa, across the vein-thin river. "I remember back in '88 meeting the mayor of Reynosa. He had an AK-47 in his back seat. We did a handshake deal to bring manufacturers to Mexico," says Allen. Back then, Reynosa had fewer than 20 factories, with 16,000 employees...
...property day and night. Several aliens died in those encounters, and ever since, a backlash against vigilantism has been taking hold. Humane Borders wants to rekindle a long tradition of locals' quietly helping along northward-bound aliens with food, water and sometimes a little cash. Father Robert Carney, a priest in Douglas, Ariz., holds prayer vigils at border-crossing points and often goes out into the desert to dispense toiletry kits and water bottles to people crossing over. The Rev. John Fife, an activist in Tucson, has earned three felony convictions for harboring immigrants and now permits the newly arrived...
...speedboat which, with three monstrous 750- horsepower outboards, could outrun anything in the Philippine navy. The faction of Abu Sayyaf (literally "Bearer of the Sword") responsible for the raid has an unparalleled reputation for ruthlessness: when Philippine troops attacked last year, the group beheaded two hostages, including a Catholic priest, after first gouging out their eyes...