Do you want to fear the holy cross of God? Do you want to look into the mirror and not see the face thatAlmighty God has given you? Do you want to come crawling back from the grave like a monster out of hell?" The voice enjoined hoarsely, pulsing, driving. "Do you want to be changed into a black unholy animal? Do you want to stain the evening sky with hellborn batwings? I ask you—do you want to be turned into godless, nightcursed husks, into creatures of eternal damnation?" "No!" the people erupted, terrorstricken. "No, save us!" Robert Neville backed away, bumping into flailinghanded, whitejawed true believers screaming out for succorfrom the lowering skies. "Well, I'm telling you! I'm telling you, so listen to the word of God! Behold, evil shall go forth from nation tonation and the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth! Isthat a lie, is that a lie?" "No! No!" "I tell you that unless we become as little children, stainless and pure in the eyes of Our Lord—unless we standup and shout out the glory of Almighty God and of His only begotten son, Jesus Christ, our Savior—unless we fall onour knees and beg forgiveness for our grievous offenses—we are damned! I'll say it again, so listen! We are damned,we are damned, we are damned!" "Amen!" "Save us!" The people twisted and moaned and smote their brows and shrieked in mortal terror and screamed out terriblehallelujahs. Robert Neville was shoved about, stumbling and lost in a treadmill of hopes, in a crossfire of frenzied worship. "God has punished us for our great transgressions! God has unleashed the terrible force of His almighty wrath!God has set loose the second deluge upon us—a deluge, a flood, a worldconsuming torrent of creatures from hell! Hehas opened the grave, He has unsealed the crypt, He has turned the dead from their black tombs—and set them uponus! And death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them! That's the word of God! God, You have punishedus, God, You have seen the terrible face of our transgressions, God, You have struck us with the might of Youralmighty wrath!" Clapping hands like the spatter of irregular rifle fire, swaying bodies like stalks in a terrible wind, moans of thegreat potential dead, screams of the fighting living. north face jackets on sale
Robert Neville strained through their violent ranks, face white,hands before him like those of a blind man seeking shelter. He escaped, weak and trembling, stumbling away from them. Inside the tent the people screamed. But night hadalready fallen. He thought about that now as he sat in the living room nursing a mild drink, a psychology text resting on his lap. A quotation had started the train of thought, sending him back to that evening ten months before, when he'd beenpulled into the wild revival meeting. burberry shirts men "This condition, known as hysterical blindness, may be partial or complete, including one, several, or all objects." That was the quotation he'd read. It had started him working on the problem again. A new approach now. Before, he had stubbornly persisted in attributing all vampire phenomena to the germ. Ifcertain of these phenomena did not fit in with the bacilli, he felt inclined to judge their cause as superstition. burberry rain jacket
True,he'd vaguely considered psychological explanations, but he'd never really given much credence to such a possibility.Now, released at last from unyielding preconceptions, he did. There was no reason, he knew, why some of the phenomena could not be physically caused, the restpsychological. And, now that he accepted it, it seemed one of those patent answers that only a blind man would miss.Well, I always was the blindman type, he thought in quiet amusement. Consider, he thought then, the shock undergone by a victim of the plague.
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