Randomly selected passage from Mason & Dixon
Robin Landseadel
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Sat Mar 21 17:52:00 CDT 2009
"The Lord's long Night of gaming draws to a close," pronounces
Squire Haligast, "- the Object in its Journey, comes nigh, among
the excursions of Chance, the sins of ministers, the inscriptions
upon walls and Gate-posts,- the birth of the 'Sandwich,' at this
exact moment in Christianity,- one of the Noble and Fallen for
its Angel! Disks of secular Bread,- enclosing whilst concealing
slices of real Flesh, yet a-sop with Blood, under the earthly
guise of British Beef, all,- but for the Species of course,-
Consubstantiate, thus ... the Sandwich, Eucharist of this our
Age." Thereupon retracting his head into the recklessly-toss'd
folds of his neck-cloth, and saying no more.
Mason & Dixon, pg. 367
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