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was loved by a great Maestro once,” she said. “He showed me angels. They used to come to our table in sunbeams. I swear. Angels in sunbeams. And I thought we’d live forever, and I’d learn all the secrets of the sea. But I let him lead me out of the sun. I let him persuade me the spirits didn’t matter. Only our will mattered, and if we willed pain, then that was wisdom. I lost myself in such a little time, Judith. Such a little time.”
She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.
The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides
Matthew 1.23, citing Isaiah 7.14; 2.6, citing Micah 5.2; 2.15, citing Hosea 11.1; 2.18, citing Jeremiah 31.15; 2.23, citing an unknown passage. It is instructive to look these up in the Hebrew Bible and to see to what extent they seem like predictions of events surrounding the birth of Jesus.
The Meaning of Jesus
Marcus J. Borg, N. T. Wright
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