uncheatable

Updated: May 21, 2025

Neither could appeal to a people to whom delicacy was an unknown god. Had it been known and a fetish, they could not have become the practical people that they are. Even then they were shrewd. Their Elohim might alarm but never delude. Israel was uncheatable even in dream.

Edgar Saltus - The Lords of the Ghostland: A History of the Ideal