Comatose, Pa's wife, the slobstress, buried an armchair beneath her bulk.

“I don't believe in an interventionist GodBut I know, darling, that you doBut if…”

“Then he smiles because he knows deep in his bones that his dad has gone and sai…”

“Listen, ah don't wanna speak ill of the dead but have ah told you that mah moth…”

“I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.”