Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you {a} call 911, {b} get the hot dogs, or {c} recognize God? A vanishingly small number of people would recognize God, Anne had decided years before, and most of them had simply missed a dose of Thorazine. She
( Mary Doria Russell )
[ The Sparrow ]
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