All 3 Uses of
blasphemy
in
Death and the King's Horseman
- No. I mean, is there no mourning in the home of the bereaved that such blasphemy is permitted?†
Chpt 4 *blasphemy = disrespectful of something considered sacred
- It is when the alien hand pollutes the source of will, when a stranger force of violence shatters the mind's calm resolution, this is when a man is made to commit the awful treachery of relief, commit in his thought the unspeakable blasphemy of seeing the hand of the gods in this alien rupture of his world.†
Chpt 5
- My will was squelched in the spittle of an alien race, and all because I had committed this blasphemy of thought—that there might be the hand of the gods in a stranger's intervention.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
something said or done that is disrespectful of something considered sacred -- especially God or religion