Called Updike

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“Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of the Law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

“Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)