Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.
Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.
Ever since the world began, it has been the belief of mankind that desolate places are the special haunt of supernatural beings.
When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of it as mythology, not as real people interacting with other real people, we ignore the cost of human lives and blood.
Near the gates and within two cities there will be scourges the like of which was never seen: famine within plague, people put out by steel, crying to the great immortal God for relief.
I believe in the sanctity of human life, from the womb to the tomb.
Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.
I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me.
We live in this era that has benefited from the Industrial Revolution, and we live with a kind of luxury and plenty that even all but the poorest of Americans live with a kind of sensuousness that was unimagined by medieval kings. But in order to get to this point, a lot of people had to suffer in really terrible ways.
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
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