Word: sinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more complex. "Good and evil, we know, in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably," said Milton. The West's philosophic heritage shows that both are components of human existence, intertwined and inseparable. As Luther suggested, man is simul justus ac peccator-saint and sinner at once. To say that evil is part of man is not to condone evil deeds in men. Wrongdoing is not to be shrugged off with easy references to human nature. Yet to ignore the persistent dark element in man can be as misleading, and intolerant, as to see only...
WOULDN'T YOU know it? Kerouac is dead. Neal Cassady is dead, and now Kerouac, of a "massive hemorrhage." He drank too much. He couldn't seem to make the transition to the flower- power scene. He was too much the dirty bum, the dope fiend, the sinner redeemed through his sin, innocent the whole way, embarrassingly sincere, impatient, hostile, one of the most generous souls of his time, a creator of the American underground, avatar of the ones who could not fight the Nova Police because there were too few of them, and they would have been crushed: William...
...repeats that I am a sinner. I look at my plate and eat a forkful of scrambled eggs. The eggs are cold. I start to feel uncomfortable. I want the guy to leave...
...sinner," the guy says, "You have cut yourself off from the will...
...dark glasses and go outside. I walk down to the river and sit on the footbridge, watching the dark, timeless water flowing beneath me. There is a girl about 20 yeards away. Maybe I should go talk to her, I think. Maybe she is a sinner, too. I start to fell better...