Lord, Lord, Lord!" She flailed her arms.
Saramago is a ragger and a wrangler as much as a writer, and there are several middling to good gags, as when Eve complains about her lot to the angel: "we sleep in a hole, we eat grass, just as the lord promised, and we have diarrhoea, What's diarrhoea, asked the angel, Another word for it is the runs, the vocabulary the lord taught us has a word for everything".
The Lord taught me to be faithful, in all things, and to act faithfully two ways; viz., inwardly to God, and outwardly to man".
Known as an honest person, he also proclaimed, "The Lord taught me to be faithful in all things...and to keep to Yea and Nay in all things".
In the name of your Lord who created -- created man from a clot [of blood]... [Your Lord] taught by the pen; taught man that which he knew not".
Oh Lord, teach us to speak the truth in love, just as you do.
In a later scene, in about the middle of the film, Rosa Lee is alone at bedtime praying and she recites the words of Psalm 25:4-6, KJV, "Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.
Lewis returned to Oxford where he taught English and was a close friend of The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien.
In that regard, Dick Cheney really was his undoing, the Sith Lord who brought him under his wing, taught him the arts of war -- domestic and international.
We all hope so, but history has taught us a cold lesson: the fall of a drug lord doesn't decapitate a criminal organization.
