Merry Christmas

[Seb Thirlway]

From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>

[snip]


>"this evensong, climaxing now with its rising fragment of some
ancient
>scale, voices overlapping three- and fourfold, up, echoing,
filling the
>entire hollow of the church--no counterfeit baby, no
announcement of the
>Kingdom, not even a try at warming or lighting this terrible
night, only,
>damn us, our scruffy obligatory little cry, our maximum reach
>outward--praise be to God!--for you to take back to your
war-address, your
>war-identity, across the snow's footprints and tire tracks
finally to the
>path you must create by yourself, alone in the dark. Whether you
want it or
>not, whatever seas you have crossed, the way home. . . . "
>
Thank you! my favourite passage out of all 760 pages.  And Merry
Christmas to you.

seb