Word: satanic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lolly Willowes?Sylvia Townsend Warner ($2). A decayed gentlewoman's discovery of Satan...
...Lolly's awakening and took her as a matter of course to the very next Witches' Sabbath. It was in a hedged field about midnight, and very vivacious. But village witches and warlocks are a rustic, hysterical lot. They wearied Lolly, before long, and angered her a little. When Satan appeared in a guise suitable to their company, she rebuffed his advances...
This was very wise of her, as events showed. She had her reward later, in another field, just after dawn. There, and at an interview by the tomb of Sir Robert Maulgrave?the Satanic baronet who had drunk from a skull and ridden a zebra about the countryside?Lolly made certain of Satan for what he is?a black knight wandering about succoring decayed gentlewomen; a loving huntsman who affords empty lives some adventure by pursuing their souls in all their windings, patiently, secretly, like a gentleman stalking tigers. . . . Such a delicate perfection in spider-claw prose is not published...
...made bees, bees made honey; God made men, men made money; God made Satan, Satan made sin; God made a little hole to put Satan in. Satan said he would not go; God said he should; Satan said, "If I go, God damn my blood...
...Every one of our 20,000,000 Sunday papers is Satan's ambassador and a decoy to ruin America...