How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Eccles’ handshake, eager and practiced and hard, seems to symbolize for him an embrace. For an instant Rabbit fears he will never let go. He feels caught, foresees explanations, embarrassments, prayers, reconciliation’s rising up in dank walls; his skin prickles in desperation. He senses tenacity in his captor. (4.118)
It’s interesting to think about what would have happened if Rabbit had run here, away from Eccles. It probably wouldn’t have made a good book though. We put this under religion because it has both Eccles on Sunday, and the word "prayer."
Quote #5
"I [Eccles] don’t think even the blackest atheist has any idea of what real separation will be. Outer darkness. We live in what you might call" – he looks at Harry and laughs – " inner darkness." (5.36)
Well, aren’t we all existential and sophisticated? But it’s sure an interesting perspective on hell. Ideas like hell on earth and the hell of the mind don’t apply to the hell that comes when we die if we aren’t careful. Or rather, just how much hell you are in depends on how far away you are from God. Very Gothic.