AtD 212 spoiler

gp wescac at gmail.com
Thu Nov 23 18:44:49 CST 2006


Jeshimon
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 (jĕsh´ĭmŏn) , in the Bible, desert, the Wilderness of Judah, between
the hill country and the Dead Sea.

Interesting, too, that the two cowpokes decide it's the best place to
bring the defeated anarchist.

On 11/23/06, gp <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
> "They all lived in fear of the Governor, forever to and fro in
> Jeshimon and apt to arrive anywhere in town without warning.  What
> impressed a first-time viewer was not any natural charisma, for he had
> none, but rather a keen sense of something wrong in his appearance,
> something pre-human int he face, the sloping forehead and clean-shaven
> upper lip, which for any reason, or none, would start back into a
> simian grin which was suppressed immediately, producing a kind of
> dangerous smirk that often lingered for hours, and which, when
> combined with his glistening stare, was enough to unnerve the boldest
> of desperadoes.  Though he believed that the power that God had
> allowed to find its way to him required a confident swagger, his gait
> was neither earned nor, despite years of practice, authentic, having
> progressed in fact little beyond an apelike trudge."
>
> *ahem*
>
> Maybe I'm reading too much into it.
>




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