multicorporeal

Updated: May 8, 2025

John's complacency had faded with the white heat of his anger, and he sat chafing in spirit while his elbow neighbor slept in the shape of an N. Across the car he heard Parson Tombs explaining to the Graves brethren and Sister March that Satan though sometimes corporeal and in that case he might be either unicorporeal or multicorporeal and at other times unicorporeal as he might choose and providence permit and, mark you, he might be both at once on occasion was by no means omnipresent, but only ubiquitous.

George Washington Cable - John March, Southerner