Michael Malone - Weebly

otten luck added proof to his hypothesis that what God
did to Job was par for the course. Not without a sense
of humor himself, Coleman tacked on a bulletin board
examples of what he took to be instances of God's not
dissimilar wit: the family whose house was demolished
by a crashing airplane while they were away in their car
being run over by a truck. The CIA's training dolphins
to be spies and assassinate enemy frogmen.
Sometimes A.A. Hayes came into the back room
and chuckled over these clippings with Sniffell. The
latter didn't know it, but he liked Hayes, too.
Nevertheless, he felt superior to his editor because he
sensed that while A.A. shared his assessment of the
human condition, he was unreconciled to so pure a
philosophy. Indeed, Hayes's obsession with
conspiracies simply indicated a naive refusal to let go of
meaningfulness. In Sniffell's opinion, the southerner
lacked the courage to trek resolutely into the white
wilderness of absurdity or, at least, was unable to set
forth sober. Sniffell himself called on no St.
Bernards to save him with brandy. He had no bad
habits, including that habit of happiness espoused by his