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trof

(54,256 posts) Sat Jul 11, 2015, 09:04 AM Jul 2015

Read first chapter of 'Go Set a Watchman' here:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2015/jul/10/go-set-a-watchman-read-the-first-chapter

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Read first chapter of 'Go Set a Watchman' here: (Original Post) trof Jul 2015 OP

"Go Set a Watchman" yallerdawg Jul 2015 #1

Thanks for the post SCantiGOP Jul 2015 #2

yallerdawg

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1. "Go Set a Watchman"

Reply to trof (Original post)

Sat Jul 11, 2015, 09:30 AM

Jul 2015

It's Southern complicated:

Isaiah 21:5-12

They prepare the table, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink. Arise, O princes; oil the shield! For thus the Lord said to me: “Go, set a watchman; let him announce what he sees. When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, let him listen diligently, very diligently.” Then he who saw cried out: “Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord, continually by day, and at my post I am stationed whole nights. And behold, here come riders, horsemen in pairs!” And he answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the carved images of her gods he has shattered to the ground.” ...

SCantiGOP

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2. Thanks for the post

Reply to yallerdawg (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 11, 2015, 11:16 AM

Jul 2015

Something that binds my Southern family together: favorite novel of mine and all three of my children.

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