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Hadley Barndollar, USA TODAY NETWORK
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7:42 pm UTC Mar. 16, 2021
DEB CRAM, USA TODAY NETWORK
KITTERY, Maine – At J.S. Pelkey and Son Funeral Home, the changes happened almost overnight.
The country’s first coronavirus cases had been identified and initial deaths reported. By March, inside the chapel, plastic covered the large mahogany cross and Roman-style pedestals, stretching across the carpet to the walls. Air conditioners stuffed the windows.
A space typically used for wakes and other services to celebrate life, the chapel was instead filled with the dead. There were upwards of 20 caskets.
Ordinarily filled with raw human feeling, the room had been transformed into a chilled, sterile environment.
Plagues, hail, and darkness. Are we living through a modern Exodus?
Where’s Moses when you need him?
Holy Moses, what a season we’re having! It seems that we’re living through events of biblical proportions, some of them straight out of the pages of Exodus.
In case you’re not familiar with the early chapters of Israel’s history, the book of Exodus tells about a time when that ethnic group was brutally oppressed and enslaved in Egypt. God sent a bumbling, self-conscious deliverer named Moses who demanded that Pharaoh set the Israelites free. Time and again, Pharaoh refused, and after each refusal God sent a plague. Ten of them.
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All is set for the unveiling of this book this weekend in Uyo as several billboards, invitation cards and letters of invitation have announced.
Every piece of literature is meant to pass a message. While literary theorists could argue that some pieces of literature are better appreciated by form and structure, rather than by content, such forms and structure would best be seen as the very import of such literary creation. What could best attain acceptance as the purpose of literature, remains the fact that literature is life. Life, in this perspective, is not the life we live. It is a creation beyond human life.
WATCH LIVE: House Republicans continue challenge to Electoral College votes after count resumes
8:30: We re back. Cortez-Masto is still reminding her states rights colleagues that state courts have already ruled that these elections were done in accordance with state law.
8:35: Mike Lee (R-Utah): I was gonna say different stuff but that was before my colleagues and Donald Trump incited coup murders, so .
No, to be totally fair, Lee is telling his GOP colleagues to shut up, because the electoral college is a sweet gig for the GOP, and he doesn t intend to break it,
thankyouverymuch. Our job is to convene, to open the ballots, and to count them. That s it.