
Published online:
01 September 2011
Published in print:
15 October 2008
Online ISBN:
9780823241057
Print ISBN:
9780823229109
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My Father's God My Father's God
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The Actor Prepares The Actor Prepares
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The Night Maggie Saw God and Sal Barnum Too The Night Maggie Saw God and Sal Barnum Too
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Sizes Sizes
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An Etruscan Catechism An Etruscan Catechism
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Who is Tages? Who is Tages?
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What is the Number of Gods in the Heavens? What is the Number of Gods in the Heavens?
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Where are the Gods Located on the Liver? Where are the Gods Located on the Liver?
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Where are the Sun and Moon Located? Where are the Sun and Moon Located?
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How are the Bolts Assigned to the Various Gods? How are the Bolts Assigned to the Various Gods?
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When Do They Perform Their Activity? When Do They Perform Their Activity?
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What Can the Gods Do? What Can the Gods Do?
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What Can an Etruscan Do? What Can an Etruscan Do?
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Is There Anything an Etruscan Cannot Do? Is There Anything an Etruscan Cannot Do?
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What Can a Haruspex Do to Mediate Between the Gods and Men? What Can a Haruspex Do to Mediate Between the Gods and Men?
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Let Us Review. Let Us Review.
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How Does He Avoid Error? How Does He Avoid Error?
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Is the Haruspex Excluded from These Revels? Is the Haruspex Excluded from These Revels?
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But Tell Me What Use Has the Haruspex for the Curve of a Cape? But Tell Me What Use Has the Haruspex for the Curve of a Cape?
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Is It the Task of the Haruspex to Furnish or Decorate the Tomb? Is It He Who Chooses Its Occupants? Is It the Task of the Haruspex to Furnish or Decorate the Tomb? Is It He Who Chooses Its Occupants?
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How Curious Indeed That the Unflat Wall Erupts in Shapes How Curious Indeed That the Unflat Wall Erupts in Shapes
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But Was That Not He Who Seated the Couple at the Table? But Was That Not He Who Seated the Couple at the Table?
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You Are So Certain of the Haruspex's Actions. Tell Me Then and By What Methods Exactly, as He Holds the Lobes, Might He Avoid Error? You Are So Certain of the Haruspex's Actions. Tell Me Then and By What Methods Exactly, as He Holds the Lobes, Might He Avoid Error?
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But What Then Is a Body? a Whole Divided Into Parts? But What Then Is a Body? a Whole Divided Into Parts?
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If a Body Is Divided Into Parts Then Can a Single Part Itself Divide? If a Body Is Divided Into Parts Then Can a Single Part Itself Divide?
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But Could It Not Be That the Human Pleasure Is Attributable Only to the Second Man? But Could It Not Be That the Human Pleasure Is Attributable Only to the Second Man?
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Can a Double Flute Walk? Can a Double Flute Walk?
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And What of the Haruspex Who Plucks From One Whole One Part, Only Further to Divide His Prize, Ostensibly to Represent a Greater Whole? What Is His Relation to These Parts? And What of the Haruspex Who Plucks From One Whole One Part, Only Further to Divide His Prize, Ostensibly to Represent a Greater Whole? What Is His Relation to These Parts?
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What Significance is Ascribed to the Height of a Hat, the Length of a Cock, the Number of Birds or of Bolts in the Sky, What Significance is Ascribed to the Height of a Hat, the Length of a Cock, the Number of Birds or of Bolts in the Sky,
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What Is the Significance of the Number of Prisoners Taken in Battle What Is the Significance of the Number of Prisoners Taken in Battle
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And What Is the Relation of the Haruspex to Music? And What Is the Relation of the Haruspex to Music?
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What are the Questions Most Often Asked of the Haruspex, and What Is Their Tone? What are the Questions Most Often Asked of the Haruspex, and What Is Their Tone?
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These are Relentless. are There No Softer Voices for the Haruspex to Hear? These are Relentless. are There No Softer Voices for the Haruspex to Hear?
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Let Us Review. Let Us Review.
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What Responses is a Haruspex Likely to Give to Those Etruscans Who are Beset By Misfortune? What Responses is a Haruspex Likely to Give to Those Etruscans Who are Beset By Misfortune?
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Is the Accretion of Misfortunes Burdensome to the Haruspex? for Example, Does He Never Wish If Time Allowed Him to Indulge in Play as Other Citizens, Perhaps to Recommend to Them These Distractions in Conjunction With Their Offerings to the Gods? Is the Accretion of Misfortunes Burdensome to the Haruspex? for Example, Does He Never Wish If Time Allowed Him to Indulge in Play as Other Citizens, Perhaps to Recommend to Them These Distractions in Conjunction With Their Offerings to the Gods?
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Does the Haruspex See All Things? Does the Haruspex See All Things?
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Why Would This Man Not Attempt to Flee? Why Would This Man Not Attempt to Flee?
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And What of Yet Another Man on the Other Side Simil Arly Postured, Bent Forward Buttocks Jutting, His Foot Raised as If to Initiate Some Rhythmic Sequence? Is His Activity of Concern to the Haruspex? And What of Yet Another Man on the Other Side Simil Arly Postured, Bent Forward Buttocks Jutting, His Foot Raised as If to Initiate Some Rhythmic Sequence? Is His Activity of Concern to the Haruspex?
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Can Fate Truly Be Determined Through These Subtle Indicators? Can Fate Truly Be Determined Through These Subtle Indicators?
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Then It Truly Is of Consequence Which Part of Sky the Birds Inscribe at Dusk, At Dawn? Then It Truly Is of Consequence Which Part of Sky the Birds Inscribe at Dusk, At Dawn?
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I Will Ask No More If You Will Tell Me What Is the Most Terrible Secret Harbored By the Haruspex? I Will Ask No More If You Will Tell Me What Is the Most Terrible Secret Harbored By the Haruspex?
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Lamb Soup Lamb Soup
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Ciccina Agneddina Ciccina Agneddina
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Marco's Marcoroni Marco's Marcoroni
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The Guest The Guest
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Before the Arrival Before the Arrival
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Before the Arrival Before the Arrival
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Arrival Arrival
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Arrival Arrival
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Day Day
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Day Day
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The Rally The Rally
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The Rally The Rally
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Later in the Afternoon Later in the Afternoon
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Later in the Afternoon Later in the Afternoon
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Night Night
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Night Night
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Departure Departure
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Departur Departur
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Cite
Albright, Carol Bonomo, and Joanna Clapps Herman (eds), 'Prose', in Carol Bonomo Albright, and Joanna Clapps Herman (eds), Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana (New York, NY , 2008; online edn, Fordham Scholarship Online, 1 Sept. 2011), https://doi.org/10.5422/fso/9780823229109.003.0002, accessed 14 May 2025.
Abstract
This 1975 fiction by John Fante is about religious subversion.
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