grave pristine absolutes walked in my mind

Jeffrey Eugenides on Religious Feeling

“There was no evident proselytizing motive. But the effect, for Mitchell, was to make him aware of the centrality of religion in human history and, most important, of the fact that religious feeling didn’t arise from going to church or reading the Bible but from the most private interior experiences, either of great joy or of staggering pain.”

- The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides