Carolina QuotesOh, those sanctified fields and vineyards, always heard of but never seen! Surely there, we thought, the starving could pluck and eat in peace, free of the pious prattle that we choked down with our meals in Rome. In this we were correct. As I rose higher in the church, the meals grew more substantial and the piety less burdensome. I saw the lame and the dying leaping like frogs around a finger bone that had been fondling a milkmaid not two weeks before.
Andy Duncan Carolinian
Source
From Alfano’s Reliquary (p. 180)
- work
- Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (2000)
- year
- 2000
- locator
- p. 180
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“Oh, those sanctified fields and vineyards, always heard of b…” Andy Duncan. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-0E71958A7D. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/0e71958a7d
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