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This parental anathema, as it were, affected me much, for I was always the most dutiful of sons; and I determined to go as soon as possible, and brave what I knew must be an inevitable scene of reproach and anger, for the sake, as I hoped, of as certain a reconciliation.
I think," she said, after a moment, "that if I were to formulate a special anathema, it would be, 'May traveling seize you!" "Or restlessness," suggested John. "Yes," she said, "that's more accurate, perhaps, but it doesn't sound quite so smart. Julius is in that state of mind when the only place that seems desirable is somewhere else." "Of course you will have to go," said John mournfully.
But she is not on that account a whit displeased. A few high church vagaries do not, she thinks, sit amiss on the shoulders of a young dean's wife. It shows at any rate that her heart is in the subject; and it shows moreover that she is removed, wide as the poles asunder, from the cesspool of abomination in which it was once suspected that she would wallow and grovel. Anathema maranatha!
In this particular, the life in the man-animal is very like the life in the other animals. And still another change is coming in human affairs. Though politicians gnash their teeth and cry anathema, and man, whose superficial book-learning is vitiated by crystallised prejudice, assures us that civilisation will go to smash, the trend of society, to-day, the world over, is toward socialism.
But outside you see, for people to know that you think about such things must necessarily give them a false opinion of you." Patricia meditated. She said, with utter solemnity, "Anathema maranatha! oh, hell to damn! may the noses of all respectable people be turned upside down and jackasses dance eternally upon their grandmothers' graves!" "Patricia !" cried a shocked colonel.
Addressing white men, he says, "Is not your conduct, compared with your principles, a sacrilegious irony? When you dare to talk of civilization and the gospel, you pronounce your own anathema. In you the superiority of power produces nothing but a superiority of brutality and barbarism. Your fine political systems are sullied by the outrages committed against human nature and the divine majesty."
Travilla, the Bible says, 'If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema, maranatha, accursed from God. Oh! sir, think how dreadful! You cannot be saved unless you love Jesus, and believe on Him. 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. That is what God says in his word." She spoke with deep solemnity, the tears trembling in her eyes.
Heaven keep me from incurring any part of the anathema in requital for the irreverent sentences above written! From Shakespeare's house, the next step, of course, is to visit his burial-place.
And mentally she began to experiment with it. She has been experimenting ever since. So has man. To the rage and horror of both of them. These sexual experiments are really anathema. But once a woman is sexually self-conscious, what is she to do? There it is, she is born with the disease of her own self-consciousness, as was her mother before her.
But the messenger tore up the note and flew to his favorite temple. Superstition thus won what honor, truth and generosity could not hold. Strange, how we Occidentals have stolen out from under the shadow of anathema. Curse us, and we smile and shrug our shoulders; for a curse is but the mouthing of an angry man.
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