Opening Reed

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    They said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?”
    Bible: New Testament, Luke 24:32.

    The Emmaus story.

    If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole.
    —Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)