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Do you believe in dreams, Uncle Simeon? I do; I believe in nothing else. One night I dreamed that invisible enemies had me tied to a dead cypress. Long red arrows were sticking into me from my head to my feet, and the blood was flowing. On my head they had placed a crown of thorns, and intertwined with the thorns were fiery letters which said: "Saint Blasphemer." I am Saint Blasphemer, Rabbi Simeon. So you'd better not ask me anything else, or I'll start my blasphemies. - Nikos Kazantzakis, Ch. 10 - The Last Temptation of Christ (1951)

"If we offer him sacrificial lambs, he shouts, "I don't want them, I don't want flesh; my hunger is satisfied only with psalms." If we open our mouths and begin to sing the psalms, he shouts "I don't want words. Nothing but the flesh of the lamb, of the son, of the only son, will satisfy my hunger!"

The Last Temptation of Christ // 1988