BE : More Ch 4 departure

[David Morris]

It’s good to see the Rev. (and Pynchon) give voice this universal dilemma
that all people of conscience must constantly try to honestly negotiate.

David Morris

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 1:10 PM Allen Ruch <quail at shipwrecklibrary.com>
wrote:

> I'm especially thinking of Reverend Moss Gatlin here:
>
> "Being born into this don’t automatically make you innocent. But when you
> reach a point in your life when you understand who is fucking who—beg
> pardon, Lord—who’s taking it and who’s not, that’s when you’re obliged to
> choose how much you’ll go along with. If you are not devoting every breath
> of every day waking and sleeping to destroying those who slaughter innocent
> as easy as signing a check, then how innocent are you willing to call
> yourself? It must be negotiated with the day in those absolute terms."
>
> —Quail