“So, two babushki are riding the electric train. One says, ‘Oi, there is so little rain this year the cucumbers are only this big.’ ” Alyosha holds up his palms, two inches apart. “ ‘Don’t worry, dear,’ the deaf babushka says, ‘the most important thing is that a man be good.’ ”

The alternative is getting rid of Mr. Bush and the brainless jingoism's of Ameritards like yourself.

The answer appears on the eighty-fifth page of the book.

Though therefore Christ be the only-begotten and the beloved Son of God, we must not regard these two attributes as equivalent in meaning, but as one depending on the other, the singular love on the unigeniture.