Oh, and, with apologies to everyone who's totally uninterested in Pullman & the Slavs (those passages are wroth revisiting if Pullman's religious criticisms are to be understood, IMHO),
I find it really, really heartening when foreigners (I'm assuming you're foreign) have something positive to say about spirituality in E. Europe, Roa. I just see very little real positive effect. The Fall did more damage than us freedom-lovers (myself included) would usually like to admit.
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~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~
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