"They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down."

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Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.

— Zora Neale Hurston