Mortal, can these bones live?
Anne Enright: Marilynne Robinson’s Perfect Paradox, 22 October 2020
“... calls himself ‘the Prince of Darkness’; he may be spiritually dead, or spiritually not yet born; he is Adam in a world that has ended, instead of a world that is yet to begin. Jack is happy to describe his existence as ‘purgatorial’, despite the fact that neither Methodists nor Presbyterians ‘do’ purgatory. This is somehow irritating. What ... ”