"[...] In some ways I reckon it is worse to have a nitwit die on your hands than somebody with good sense, because you feel more responsible. But some people said it was a blessing, Silas being afflicted like he was. And the Nabbs had Alec, who wasn't but about three years old then.
"Alec turned out to have good sense, all right. And they never tried to teach him about turning the other cheek like they did Silas. [...]"
-- Robert Penn Warren, "A Christian Education"
Monday, July 20, 2009
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