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his duffle bag.
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He didn't read any book now, but he kept the Bible because it had
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come from home.
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He kept the glasses in case his vision should ever become dim.
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O'Connor has already put in place in the novel through that little
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passage the sense that the longing for home and the longing for
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redemption--or the resistance to redemption--these things are very
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close to one another.
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You can mistake-- here we find out about Haze--
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you can mistake the longing for Jesus for the longing for home,
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or vice versa: the longing for home, for the longing of Jesus.
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The Bible that he carries around is important to him because