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Born attached at the chest, Chang and Eng were considered a marvel, an omen, an act of God, evidence of His glory or proof of His wrath. Uniquely cursed, enslaved to one another for life, they were a joke of nature variously feared and abhorred, disturbing our most basic assumptions about the human condition. Mark Slouka’s dazzling achievement in God’s Fool is the ease and compassion with which he draws the story of one human being from this ghastly predicament. Looking beyond the twins’ physical connection, he imagines one man’s life of ordinary grace and suffering, longing and resistance, and the ties of love, as well as of blood, that bind and redeem us all. By any standard, theirs is a history of epic variety and drama. Their birth, to an illiterate fishmonger, sent midwives screaming from the room. Condemned to death, they survived to be brought, at the age of thirteen, to the Royal Palace in Bangkok for an audience with King Rama III. At seventeen, laboring as merchants on the Meklong River, they saw their world erased by a typhoon. Consigned for three hundred pounds to an opium trader by their mother, who was desperate to ensure their survival, they sailed for Europe. There they entertained kings and counselors in salons and drawing rooms from Brussels to Rome, and, in Paris, met the woman who would divide them as no surgeon ever could.When the culture that had lifted them up inevitably cast them down, they landed in the flophouses of London, where, penniless and starving, they were discovered by Phineas T. Barnum, who packed them off to America along with an assortment of bearded ladies and two-headed calves, albino beauties and dog boys, German midgets and twelve-fingered flute players. Leaving Barnum at the height of their fame to take a last stab at normal life, they settled in North Carolina, where, despite the tensions growing between them, they found, for a time, tranquillity as farmers and slave owners, marrying a pair of sisters and fathering, between them, twenty children. Their peace, however, would prove to be short-lived. As the Civil War drew closer, and their world began to tilt, they would first turn against each other and then, faced with a trial unlike any they had ever known, draw together once more. No longer young, they set off to find the war, and to save what could be saved. It would be there, on that very real battlefield, that Chang would enact his final, terrifying battle with fate.Sweeping and intimate, vibrant and austere, God’s Fool is a novel of soaring ambition and accomplishment from a fiercely gifted storyteller.From the Hardcover edition. Gnosticism - Wikipedia Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek: gnostikos "having knowledge" from gnsis knowledge) is a modern term categorizing a collection of ancient religions whose ... History of the Devil: The Age of the Reformation p. 338. THE AGE OF THE REFORMATION. THE Reformation although in many respects a great advance did not introduce a sudden change in the belief in the Devil. Nevertheless the tendency becomes more ... Martyrdom in History - Encyclopedia of Death and Dying Martyrdom in History The one common denominator in all martyrdoms (the word stems from the Greek martur meaning "to witness" or "to attest") is that the martyr in ... Esoteric Sound 2016 Vintage Recording Sale RETURN TO HOME PAGE Esoteric Sound 2017 Vintage Recording Sale "I've got to say I'm very pleased to have finally gotten ... Ivoire de Balmain Pierre Balmain perfume - Fragrantica Ivoire de Balmain by Pierre Balmain is a chypre floral fragrance for women. Ivoire de Balmain was launched in 1980. Top notes are aldehydes chamomile asafoetida mandarin orange violet ... Vintage Poster Inventory - International Poster Gallery A Vapeur Bresil-Plata Algerie - Societe Generale de Transports Maritimes by Sebille Albert; Baren- Brauerei (bookplate) by Hohlwein Ludwig; Folgen Sie Uns (bookplate) by Hohlwein Ludwig Book Archive Well Read TV Show Book Reviews Online ... Ross Macdonald: Three Novels of the Early 1960s: The Zebra-Striped Hearse / The Chill / The Far Side of the Dollar: Library of America 279 (The Library of America) ... BOOK CLUB Share Reviews and ... Atheism - Wikipedia Atheist's Wager; Evil God Challenge; Fate of the unlearned; Free will; God of the gaps; Hitchens's razor ... Agnosticism; Weak; Strong; Agnostic theism; Agnostic atheism; Ignosticism; Apatheism ... The 1000 Year Millennium Following Jesus' Second Coming What does the Bible say will happen during the 1000 year millennium? Will God's people be on Earth or in Heaven? ... Getting back to Jude 14 the dead in Christ are not coming back with Jesus at ... Pascal Blaise Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Blaise Pascal (16231662) Blaise Pascal was a French philosopher mathematician scientist inventor and theologian. In mathematics he was an early pioneer in the fields of game theory and ...
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