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...Storm, which was made into a critically acclaimed movie) would seem to condemn it as an example of this type of writing: Billie Raitcliffe has a thing for men who work with radioactivity (personality tic) and a degenerative muscular disease; her husband just left her and she asks her son to euthanize her when her illness gets too severe (societal problem; two, if you count the separation). Hex, her son, has to decide whether he can shoulder the burden of caring for his mother alone (societal problem) even as he copes with his alcoholism and is sever stammer (personality tics...
This insinuation is particularly strong in thelegend of the community's founding, which takes upa significant chunk of the novel's middle. Thefounder is the illegitimate son of an Irish monk,who raises the boy cloistered and influencedexclusively by the priestly life and thescriptures. When his father dies and the othermonks flee a famine, the boy is loosed upon thecountry. Having never encountered humans before,he viciously survives the hunger by murdering andcannibalizing those whom he has been taught inLatin to treat as Christ. He continues in similarfashion in Newfoundland, as a pirate terrorizingthe British Colony there until...
What Gomes has decidedly less patience for isthe people who expect him to capitalise on themedia attention he has garnered. Gomes' lifeconforms to the vision of an American successstory. The son of a cranberry farmer, Gomes'father offered a tepid response when he learnedthat his son wanted to be a preacher. But sensingthat he had found his life's vocation, Gomespursued the path he felt destined to. And, seeinghim at the pulpit, it is hard to imagine him doinganything else...
...son of diamond merchants packed up and headed west, with $93 and a scholarship in his pocket, following the star his family had missed. He attended Baldwin-Wallace College near Cleveland, Ohio, filled with the impatience of his own promise. He was working on a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania when one day he realized that he didn't have the money to get a pair of broken eyeglasses repaired. It was a revelation; there would never be money in philosophy, he reasoned, so he promptly quit school to take a job in electronics. Eight years later...
...Jesus, I don't get it. I swear I see nothin' but the prosperity of the wicked." Let's kick it so you can see the end that's predicted, When...sinful men get evicted... But God the Son is gonna rise like a biscuit, Come back...