Lutheran God-talk, after all, has been the main impetus for everything from modern death of God talk — all those Nietzscheans were brought up Lutheranly — to numbing, sterile, crabby, and cramping sectarianisms […]

The soldiers laughed but the old black woman answered indignantly, “I buyed it.”

So our list of the Ten Worst is carefully culled from the trashery of Doctors' Wives or The Seven Minutes or Percy and The Statue . . . .

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