Quote:
"...Big John de Conquer and his works. How he had done everything big on earth, then went up tuh heben without dying atall. Went up there picking a guitar and got all de angels doing the ring-shout round and round de throne. Then everybody but God and Old Peter flew off on a flying race to Jericho and back and John de Conquer won the race; went on down to hell, beat the old devil and passed out ice water to everybody down there. Somebody tried to say that it was a mouth organ harp that John was playing,..."
Pg. 157
Comment:
(E) This is another instance of Janie and Tea Cake hanging out with other people on a porch. Two parts in this quote were really funny to me. First, the story told is false but it's like a parody of a Bible story. Some parts are true for different people in the Bible. The second one would have to be the saying "...went down to hell, beat the old devil and passed out ice water to everybody down there." It's probably just me and maybe some other Christians, but this is crazily funny.
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