The Look of Re-veiled Asians

Nobbut hoped there wasn't something on him and wondered at the mosques of the Moslems, which looked like giant spiders with their legs turned up in death, that is, if the great mosque at Mecca was anything to go by; so was it where they worshipped spiders or mosquitoes? Genuflecting, he opened a bottle of wine with a screw top. Pouring a glassful, he drank. Tearing a piece of bread from an uncut loaf, Nobbut Bullitz spoke the magic formula, which Jesus had taught the disciples at what came to be known as his 'Last Supper' before his death, 'This is my body, which is broken for you. Take, eat; do this in remembrance of me.' (Cor: 11. 24) They'd been celebrating 'Passover', that is, the feast of the Jews after their slavery in the reign of Pharaoh Thutmose III, who'd been made to let them leave for the land God had promised them in Palestine (c. 1446 BC) when Azrael, the 'angel of death' had passed over them to kill the firstborn of the Egyptians, and so it was that Azrael had called the Jews to God's 'Promised Land', Azrael.

Autorentext

Watched Sammy McIlroy's header hit the post in the defeat to Southampton, 0-1, at the Wembley FA Cup Final of 1977, and didn't have the words. Got a PhD in English at Hull University in 1993, and now Robin Bright's got some.

Klappentext

Nobbut hoped there wasn't something on him and wondered at the mosques of the Moslems, which looked like giant spiders with their legs turned up in death, that is, if the great mosque at Mecca was anything to go by; so was it where they worshipped spiders or mosquitoes? Genuflecting, he opened a bottle of wine with a screw top. Pouring a glassful, he drank. Tearing a piece of bread from an uncut loaf, Nobbut Bullitz spoke the magic formula, which Jesus had taught the disciples at what came to be known as his 'Last Supper' before his death, 'This is my body, which is broken for you. Take, eat; do this in remembrance of me.' (Cor: 11. 24) They'd been celebrating 'Passover', that is, the feast of the Jews after their slavery in the reign of Pharaoh Thutmose III, who'd been made to let them leave for the land God had promised them in Palestine (c. 1446 BC) when Azrael, the 'angel of death' had passed over them to kill the firstborn of the Egyptians, and so it was that Azrael had called the Jews to God's 'Promised Land', Azrael.