The statement that really floored me was: This state is going to be run by blacknecks and rednecks! We're going to make it a Promised Land!

an angelic child

This is not, however, a mere salmagundi of alphabetical arcana.

Zachary! Her lips smacked at the name. That's not a...well,a...Jewish name, is it? Oh yes, Zechariah, my father was born in the U.S.S.R., in Podolsk, and my mother's family came from Russia also, a long time ago. I suppose it's Russian or something. Russian? It doesn't sound Russian. Well I don't know exactly; my mother liked Zachary Scott in the pictures.