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Falling into a literary ocean, infinitely deep
My grandmother gave me my first Bible when she heard I had the part of Job’s daughter in Archibald MacLeish’s J.B. I opened it and fell into the ocean. But I never lost that first impression: the Bible is for literature, as a refuge from the coarse words and images of our age; for law (if not for legislation); for divine guidance (if not for divination); for wisdom, veiled and revealed.
