Submitted by scott on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 13:36

This fly was no ordinary fly but was the fly required to preserve typhoid fever. "It is most difficult to understand the disposition of the Bible God, it is such a confusion of contradictions; of watery instabilities and iron firmness; of goody-goody abstract morals made out of words, and concreted hell-born ones made out of acts; of fleeting kindness repented of in permanent malignities. However, when after much puzzling you get at the key to his disposition, you do at last arrive at a sort of understanding of it. With a most quaint and juvenile and astonishing frankness he has furnished that key himself. It is jealousy!"

Reading Date
October 2011
SL Venue
Winterfell

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