"[In Jamaica] Last April, the local news media reported that gays had protested
outside the offices of the Western Mirror, a Montego Bay newspaper,
after it published an article that said gays were responsible for a
shortage of women’s underwear in the city."
"I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad people," said the man. "You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.
"Down there," he said, "are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god [sic], ignore any iniquity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathesomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no."
"She flew forward and back and I watched her shadow in the white dust
under the swing. Each time she reached the top of her arc beneath the
sun, her shadow legs were transformed into the thin, curved legs of an
antelope, with small rounded hooves at the bottom instead of feet. I
was transfixed and horrified by the image of my sister with antelope
legs. I knew it was only shadow and the angle of the sun, but still
it's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what
you have always known."
"I saw prevailing throughout the Christian world a licence in making
war of which even barbarous nations should be ashamed; men resorting to
arms for trivial or for no reasons at all, and when arms were once
taken up no reverence left for divine or human law, exactly as if a
single edict had released a madness driving men to all kinds of crime"
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