The poison sacs of the town began to manufacture venom, and the town swelled and puffed with the pressure of it.” The news stirred up something infinitely black and evil in the town the black distillate was like the scorpion, or like hunger in the smell of food, or like loneliness when love is withheld. “Every man suddenly became related to Kino’s pearl, and Kino’s pearl went into the dreams, the speculations, the schemes, the plans, the futures, the wishes, the needs, the lusts, the hungers, of everyone, and only one person stood in the way and that was Kino, so that he became curiously every man’s enemy. News seems to move faster than small boys can scramble and dart to tell it, faster than women can call it over the fences.” How news travels through a town is a mystery not easily to be solved. A town is a thing separate from all other towns alike.
A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. “A town is a thing like a colonial animal. “For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.” Kino sighed with satisfaction – and that was conversation.” They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway.
“When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.” The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. And yet it was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god, and Juana had need of a man she could not live without a man.” Juana, in her woman’s soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. It meant that he was half insane and half god.
“He had said, “I am a man,” and that meant certain things to Juana. “she knew she could help him best by being silent and by being near”
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