““Amen!’ he hollered. Speakin’ of amen, what little time he was layin’ in th’ hospital with a clear head, he had thought about God. Well, not about God exactly, but how people talked about him all th’ time. He realized he did th’ same thing. He said God A’mighty when somethin’ rattled or surprised him. He said God only knows when Avis Packard didn’t. He said Lord help when he didn’t expect any help. It was just words. You open your mouth and out comes stuff you hear other people say, then you say it, too, and it don’t mean nothin’. The thing was, he’d like it to mean somethin’.””
