Darwin by Ruth Padel

Darwin by Ruth Padel

Author:Ruth Padel [Padel, Ruth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-95952-2
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-11-23T00:00:00+00:00


NOTES

1. Emma Wedgwood, 1838.

III

HE IGNORES HIS FATHER’S ADVICE1

Her face pale as vaulting in the Cordillera church

where he read Milton one morning alone. What in me

is dark, illumine.2 He’s trying to heft his doubt

about Christian Revelation. The leaves of his life

are gossiping around him. He accepts Christian morality,

of course! He stares at a quiff of feather on her skirt.

He’d like, he really would, to believe in afterlife

and the promise of Salvation. A sudden flush

like coral cloud in eastern sky, a photochemical exchange

on the face he’s known since he was small, marks passage

of the prayer that must be moving in her mind

like dolphins underwater. God grant he change.



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