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These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'business as usual.' but if they perceive a slight against god, it is a different story. their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. the degree of their indignation is astonishing. their resolve is frightening.
-Yann Martel
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These People Walk By A Widow Deformed

Yann Martel
These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'business as usual.' but if they perceive a slight against god, it is a different story. their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. the degree of their indignation is astonishing. their resolve is frightening.
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Ah, father! that’s words and only words! forgive! if he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his only shirt dirty and in rags and he’d have fallen asleep like a log, and i should have been sousing and rinsing till daybreak, washing his rags and the children’s and then drying them by the window and as soon as it was daylight i should have been darning them. what’s the use of talking forgiveness! i have forgiven as it is!
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