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Jefferson (Jeff) Fleetwood
Reverend Pulliam is a preacher in Ruby. He serves as the older, more conservative counterpart to Reverend Misner, and the two are frequently at odds. Their greatest conflict ensues at K.D. and Arnette’s wedding, when Pulliam preaches that God does not care about individuals who do not earn his love. This so angers Misner that he disrupts the ceremony to hold up a cross in protest.
Reverend Senior Pulliam Quotes in Paradise
The Paradise quotes below are all either spoken by Reverend Senior Pulliam or refer to Reverend Senior Pulliam. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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[…] Pulliam had just sprayed [poison] over everything[.] Over the heads of men finding it so hard to fight their instincts to control what they could and crunch what they could not; in the hearts of women tirelessly taming the predator; in the faces of children not yet recovered from the blow to their esteem upon learning that adults would not regard them as humans until they mated; of the bride and groom frozen there, desperate for this public bonding to dilute their private shame. Misner knew that Pulliam’s words were a widening of the war he had declared on Misner’s activities: tempting the youth to step outside the wall, outside the town limits, shepherding them, forcing them to transgress, to think of themselves as civil warriors.
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Reverend Senior Pulliam Quotes in Paradise
The Paradise quotes below are all either spoken by Reverend Senior Pulliam or refer to Reverend Senior Pulliam. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
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[…] Pulliam had just sprayed [poison] over everything[.] Over the heads of men finding it so hard to fight their instincts to control what they could and crunch what they could not; in the hearts of women tirelessly taming the predator; in the faces of children not yet recovered from the blow to their esteem upon learning that adults would not regard them as humans until they mated; of the bride and groom frozen there, desperate for this public bonding to dilute their private shame. Misner knew that Pulliam’s words were a widening of the war he had declared on Misner’s activities: tempting the youth to step outside the wall, outside the town limits, shepherding them, forcing them to transgress, to think of themselves as civil warriors.
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