Chapter 1 In which Mrs Milica gains ingress to the Colonel's house ...

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“You are growing fat like rats in your holes, and His hands and His legs weep tears of blood… You are twisting the nails, sinners, day after day, hour after hour, with lechery and lies… With meat eating! “You harness yourselves to his nails as to a winepress, to draw off the new wine! “And your mouths reek of yeast, and your hearts stink of corpse… “Consume ocean fish, brethren, to cleanse your sins!” (Haoo –haoooooo! Haooooooo! Haoo-haoooooooooooooooooooooooo!) “Oooh, Lord, I pity them, be lenient… Suffer, O Lord, their foolishness! “Pray, good people! Our esteem and pride, Ceau§escu, Romania! “ I see the terrible time of punishment, but how much can I weep for you? You will eat snow! I tell you the truth: you will graze snow like lambs… “And there will be no more snow and you will grind up bricks. With lukewarm water strained through gauze you will wet your lips. That will be your communion, sinners! The worms will batten on your houses. And you will fight each other for them… The wind will blow over the foundations as through blades of grass.” (Haoo –haoooooo! Haooooooo! Haoo-haoooooooooooooooooooooooo!) “In flocks you will go and in house after house you will stay. “You will drink water from pipes and you will wither away from heat and cold. “A rain of oil will come and blacken the windows. Then a rain of water will come, a rain of corruption!
“And hunger will be among you like a brother.” (Haoo –haoooooo! Haooooooo! Haoo-haoooooooooooooooooooooooo!) “I utter the truth unto you! “In the wagons where you have left wheat, you will find sludge! “In the wagons where you have left barley, you will find a mush reeking of brimstone! “In the rye wagon, rabbit droppings, and in the maize wagon, rotten meat. “Consume ocean fish, I say unto you!” (Haoo –haoooooo! Haooooooo! Haoo-haoooooooooooooooooooooooo!) “And disease will descend among us like a sister. “You will laugh, you will plait her hair and you will send her to school to get A’s and B’s. To be well behaved and obedient. And behind her, the flesh will drop from the bone like grapes shaken from the vine, in pieces as big as fingernails. “And fear will be amongst you like a loving father, I tell you. “Repent, good people! Renounce rotgut brandy and wine, renounce lechery and lies, renounce evil thoughts and go to school, learn, learn, and learn again, consume ocean fish, long live 23 August!” Hleanda’s hoarse voice resounded late into the night. The next day, this was the sole topic of discussion. Once more, with compassion, the story of her life was circulated. Old man Hrib could still recall her father, a devout and energetic priest, who was said to have flirted with the Iron Guard. But he, old man Hrib, could not be sure of that, because in those years they used to say that anyone who
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