But the book tends inexorably toward the trial and the cross, where Jews mutate into serpents ("Pharisaical vipers") and uncontrollable violence rains down.
Which is just another way of blaming, and perhaps the best way, because there is solace and a certain stoical peace in blaming everything on the rain, and then blaming something as uncontrollable as the rain on something as indifferent as the Arm of the Lord.
Imagine a rainbow that's divorced from rain, water, or any kind of natural and uncontrollable events, a rainbow that will linger, flawless and unchanging, for however long you care to watch it.
"Earthquakes, snowstorms, rain, ice, volcanic eruptions, geysers … very elementary and uncontrollable.
Earthquakes, snowstorms, rain, ice, volcanic eruptions, geysers... Very elementary and uncontrollable.
Rain or shine, the bluff has long been slipping down San Pedro Mountain in an uncontrollable march toward the sea, gradually taking with it a winding, narrow stretch of the popular highway.
The dead leaves turned dark with rain, grass pushed through them, then crocuses and snowdrops, followed by self-spread bluebells and an uncontrollable carpet of celandines — pale-gold flowers with flat green leaves, which ran over everything, headstones and gravel, bottle-green marble chips on recently dug graves, Thorsteinn's heap of rubble.
And as we all know by now, he transformed the inclement, unpredictable, uncontrollable weather from a burden to a boon, ending the 12-minute set with an emotional rendition of "Purple Rain," complete with the actual raindrops streaming down his face and 74,512 voices echoing his every word.
"The desert is uncontrollable.
