She had been sitting like that since they returned from the chapel, if you could call that place a chapel. All that talk about the spirit's journey and Berni's gift for shining light onto darkness. He'd worn an earring, too. Whosoever gather in My name, said the Lord. According to the celebrant, it was Elliot's struggle against the church, its dogma and double standards, that brought him so much closer to God.
Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death.
He'd certainly thrown down the gauntlet there, she'd thought, but there had not been one murmur of dissent. Elliot had the most extraordinary acceptance of his own death. Cheerfully he commanded Blaise, Teresa and myself to bring books to the hospital, in order that he might find the perfect quotes for his own eulogy or to be used in his forthcoming autobiography. I'll read you one that caught his eye. This quote comes from Haldane's 1927 collection of essays, Possible Worlds .