Words Versus Whips

PROGRESS REPORT

New Words: 900 on Chapter 3 ("Spirit, Faith, and Reason") of Arizona. The new friars plan to try a gentler way of converting the Hopi to Christianity than the lash, but the new captain of a military company accompanying them is perfectly fine whipping the natives to keep them in line.

Total Words: 98700.

Reason For Stopping: A bit of work at home, then off to work at the library.

Book Year: 1634.

Mammalian Assistance: Vegas and Nate came in briefly at the outset to sweep the room for demon-possessed half-inbred sea urchins, then finding none, took off to go lay in a window open to the warm February spring day.

Exercise: Walking Tucker; walking down to campus.

Stimulants: A dollop of Coke.

Today's Opening Passage(s): The battle between Church and State—this time in the form of the friars and Captain Cristobal—began the day they arrived at Awatovi.

The situation wasn’t as bad as Miguel feared. The heathens outnumbered the Christians, but there were still hundreds of saved among them. The building that would someday be the mission had no roof, but the walls hadn’t been pulled down, and the copper bell remained mounted on its post. The Christianized Indians still met within the open-to-the-sky walls every morning for a service.

Darling Du Jour: Nothing springs out at me.

Non-Research / Review Books In Progress: Farmer; Bragg.