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Doughnuts After the Sermon
by Zachary Kocanda Paul Gauguin//Public Domain After Vision After the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel) by Paul Gauguin (1888) Our great aunt was a nun, but she never told us this story. Gauguin lays it out best, the angel’s hair yellow like belts we earned in YMCA basement karate. The biblical figure nudges Jacob into the red earth, the two fighters flanked by dozens of devoted French women, heads bowed in prayer. Jacob asks the angel for his name and receives no answe
Mar 8, 20241 min read
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