Aaron had learned : from Mr. Fairlow's two-hour sermons on 'The Jealousy of an Angry Jehovah Who Hath Weighed Sinners in the Balance and Found Them Wanting', ...that God was a torturer who punished small boys for sins they might commit later. ~ Ch. 3

Reverand Lucius Fairlow... a mild-spoken young-old man with mild chestnut hair and a mild chestnut mustache and a conservative theology which stuck mildly to t…

Good sense from a child was not necessarily contemptible beside foolishness from a grown-up. ~ Ch. 3

Aaron was uncomfortable and a little afraid. This, he thought, is how God might pray to his God. ~ Ch. 1