The Recognitions (Dalkey Archive Edition) - Plot & Excerpts
You will cause a device to be prepared, without unnecessary delay, with a motto expressing in the fewest and tersest words possible, this national recognition.” —Abraham Lincoln’s Treasurer, to the director of the Mint. —I can’t live with you and be a Christian, shouted the woman clinging to the edge of the dirty sink, answering the moaning from the next room, she whose ancestors had gathered at the foot of the Janiculum in ancient Rome, and sold whatever was for sale in the garlic-reeking interior of the Taverna Meritoria, that squalid inn on the Tiber bank. —You’re not a Christian, never were. And the moaning resumed. —When are you going to stop that awful noise, she demanded, she whose ancestors strove with one another, asking, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” —Be quiet. It’s the only reason you married me. You wanted to marry a Christian, you wanted to marry a good Catholic.
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