[The Great Taboo by Grant Allen]@TWC D-Link bookThe Great Taboo CHAPTER III 11/20
"Tu-Kila-Kila has feasted his fill for this evening.
Your god is full; his heart is happy.
I have eaten human flesh; I have drunk of the juice of the kava.
Am I not a great deity? Can I not do as I will? I frown, and the heavens thunder; I gnash my teeth, and the earth trembles.
What is it to me if fresh victims come, or if they come not? Can I not make with a nod as many as I will of them ?" He took up two fresh finger-bones, clean gnawed of their flesh, and knocked them together in a wild tune, carelessly.
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