“Alas!” said Hiya, “the sentiments which this person expressed with irreproachable honourableness when the sun was high in the heavens and the probability of secretly leaving an undoubtedly well-appointed home was engagingly remote, seem to have an entirely different significance when recalled by night in a damp orchard, and on the eve of their fulfilment.”
October 10, 2007
The widest and deepest tree
Sibboleth
As his successor Flannery O’Connor would later say, the Cross is the only tree having limbs wide enough to embrace all the living and roots deep enough to enclose all the dead.
Posted by ronlusk at October 10, 2007 04:04 PM