Sublime

O’Connor’s “Good Country People,”

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And yet the lone moment of The Exorcist that has stayed so emphatically with me over the years consisted only of a few frames, and had precisely this rapid, peripheral quality, and has obtruded at odd moments into my mind’s eye ever since.

But there was nothing, just a gale of fear blowing down the lonely corridors of his mind.

Quite a strange man, thought James, watching him go – but what a relief to discover he still contained the capacity to be taken by surprise.