What are these people about?

Scott Badger lupine at ncia.net
Mon Mar 4 05:25:59 CST 2002


Terrance:
> And why can't Jere get on his knees and pray at the massacre museum? Is
> it really because people are watching him? This doesn't make any sense.
> A Quaker who fears falling to his knees? This is the same Quaker who
> will not hesitate to use violence to right a wrong? Or not even right a
> wrong but only make  himself feel a bit better for lashing out.

Dixon also desires that the 'Murderers meet appropriate Fates', yet believes
himself unfit for the job. Is it his own Faithlessness that he fears will be
judged by those 'many' who are watching? That if he kneels down, he may not
be able to climb back up/out again?

Scott Badger




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