Touch the stone,' said Beliah, 'and you will touch "reality", or what the ignorant of all ages think "reality" is. That kind of truth will kill you, man. You won't see morning! I have kept you all your life from such things as remorse, terror, pity. Touch the stone, and those same angels will change you into an old poor pathetic deluded dying creature. Hubert, a nurse has to shave you, your hand shakes so much. You know that don't you? You dribble at every orifice, Hubert. You've begun to smell this past year or two...' He suddenly howled as if I had actually touched the stone,'YOU WILL BE RAVAGED IN FIRES OF GRACE!'I heard Nurse McGregor in the next ward. 'Good evening,' came her cheerful voice to the looney who had strangled his sweetheart and then buried her in his garden. 'Is it cocoa tonight, or tea, or milk?"Beliah was weeping. Outside the eaves dripped. The whole earth was drenched with the grief of Beliah. He wept inside me. I felt his marvellous tears on my face.
We left the nursery in silence, Ma smoking a roll-up, looking like she hadn__ slept in a week or maybe like she had slept for a whole week. When the nursery was just a grubby finger smudge behind us Ma looked down at me and said in her poshed-up telephone voice: __ill you speak to Janie about swearing? Fuckin_ busybody!__ laughed and swung our linked hands.__ye, fuckin_ busybody.__leas of laughter escaped us and spiraled up into the hot, blue Scottish sky. We laughed all the way home
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We left the nursery in silence, Ma smoking a roll-up, looking like she hadn__ slept in a week or maybe like she had slept for a whole week. When the nursery was just a grubby finger smudge behind us Ma looked down at me and said in her poshed-up telephone voice: __ill you speak to Janie about swearing? Fuckin_ busybody!__ laughed and swung our linked hands.__ye, fuckin_ busybody.__leas of laughter escaped us and spiraled up into the hot, blue Scottish sky. We laughed all the way home
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