6/29/2023 0 Comments About the god of small things![]() ![]() In the country that she came from, poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace, Worse Things kept happening. And the less it mattered, the less it mattered. Inured by the confirmation of his own inconsequence, he became resilient and truly indifferent. Then Small God (cozy and contained, private and limited) came away cauterized, laughing numbly at his own temerity. ![]() That Big God howled like a hot wind, and demanded obeisance. That something happened when personal turmoil dropped by at the wayside shrine of the vast, violent, circling, driving, ridiculous, insane, unfeasible, public turmoil of a nation. And that personal despair could never be desperate enough. He didn’t know that in some places, like the country that Rahel came from, various kinds of despair competed for primacy. He put it somewhere between indifference and despair. He was exasperated because he didn't know what that look meant. They behaved as though they belonged to someone else. “But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. ![]()
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