“He always had to use holy water—real holy water, from gallon jugs he filled from the silver urn at St. Anne’s—but though it impressed the customers, all he could see that it actually did was get stuff wet.”
The Bible Repairman (p. 2)
Short fiction, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (2011)
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“Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.”
Source: Accepting the Universe (1920), p.263
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“From the water-fall he named her,
Minnehaha, Laughing Water.”
Pt. IV, Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis, st. 33.
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 18