Deadbeat: A Tale of Righteous Vengeance (Quotes)

“Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.”

• Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West

“I argue both that a clear separation between divine power and political power does not apply in this culture, and that there are marked continuities with the past in the way social relationships are construed today through the perpetuation of myth and ritual and through the use of the metaphor of battle as reflecting the inherently contestatory nature of social life.”

• John Richardson Freeman, Purity and violence: Sacred power in the Teyyam worship of Malabar