Navidad contada por la niña predicadora

En este blog recogen el pasaje de la predicación alucinante(mente buena) de la niña predicadora en la novela Los violentos lo arrebatan: tremendo pasaje, de los más intensos de Flannery sin duda.

Está en el original inglés: merece mucho la pena el esfuerzo de leerlo en el original.

Ahí está esto:

"Listen, you people," she said and flung her arms wide, "God told the world He was going to send it a king and the world waited. The world thought, a golden fleece will do for His bed. Silver and gold and peacock tails, a thousand suns in a peacock's tail will do for His sash. His mother will ride on a four-horned white beast and use the sunset for a cape. She'll trail it behind her over the ground and let the world pull it to pieces, a new one every evening."

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She began again in a dirge-like tone. "Jesus came on cold straw. Jesus was warmed by the breath of an ox. 'Who is this?' the world said, 'who is this blue-cold child and this woman, plain as the winter? Is this the Word of God, this blue-cold child? Is this His will, this plain winter-woman?'