“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.”

—  Tim Powers

The Bible Repairman (p. 2)
Short fiction, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (2011)

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