Unnamed Men Who Chase Christmas

Submitted by sfr on Sat, 2020-02-01 10:38
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Unnamed Men Who Chase Christmas
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After Joe Christmas escapes from the deputy outside the courthouse, his pursuers include "three men" in a car. They follow Christmas and Grimm into Hightower's house and watch as Grimm castrates Christmas. One of them vomits at the sight. The narrator of Light in August says that these men "are not to lose it," will never be able to forget what they saw (465).

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