That was what he wanted, to be baked dry and hard, to feel the vaporous worries evaporating one … - Paul Bowles

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Why didn't someone tell me that I can become a Christian and settle the doubts afterward?

Paul Bowles

That was what he wanted, to be baked dry and hard, to feel the vaporous worries evaporating one by one, to know finally that all the damp little doubts and hesitations that covered the floor of his being were curling up and expiring in the great furnace-blast of the sun.

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