What We're Up Against
Dec. 6th, 2012 11:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloA quiz show Ailz and I sometimes watch featured two male students who are aiming to be corporate lawyers. Or, as one of them put it, "We want to sell our souls to the devil." Yes, he actually said that. They also admitted that neither of them reads for pleasure.
If they'd kept their traps shut I'd have taken them for Born-Again Christians. They had that look about them. Smiley, toothy, virginal, smug.
If they'd kept their traps shut I'd have taken them for Born-Again Christians. They had that look about them. Smiley, toothy, virginal, smug.
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Date: 2012-12-06 04:18 pm (UTC)Stevenson has a story that plays with this truth. A murderer encounters a stranger who he imagines to be the devil. It's called Markheim.