I used to be what they call a Christ-bit...

Orpheus Descending

Carol Cutrere

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I used to be what they call a Christ-bitten reformer. You know what that is?--A kind of benign exhibitionist…I delivered stump speeches, wrote letters of protest, about the gradual massacre of the colored majority in the county.
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No, not liquor! Dope! Something not normal all right!--Her father and brother were warned by Vigilantes to keep her out of this country--She’s absolutely degraded! Yes, corrupt! Corrupt!

Tennessee Williams. Orpheus Descending. Dramatists Play Service, 1989. Pp. 19-20

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