Praying for Armageddon (2024)
mkmikas 3 points 2 months ago.

for some reason with evangelicals i always think of e l doctorow’s ‘ragtime’ with the old timey tents and charlatans and abuse. he does atmosphere really well

BubbaPharm.com 1 points 2 months ago.

I haven’t read ‘ragtime’, but I do a similar thing. I think of Jim Casy from the “Grapes of Wrath”. I’ve met his doppelganger several times.

PS - We can go back to “The Canterbury Tales” for even older tropes: The Monk, The Friar and The Pardoner. Pardoning unrepentant sinners for cash, where have I seen that?