Day 3 (November 20) Part I, Chapter III

God and Devil, Stalin and Torquemada, small men and great men. The verbal and philosophical ping-pong between Father Quixote and Sancho makes the reading delightfully pensive.

“Too many comrades have been killed by comrades.”

Comrade’s etymology: Middle French camarade, group sleeping in one room, roommate, companion, from Old Spanish camarada, from cámara room, from Late Latin camera, camara. The chapter ends with those two sleeping together in open air—the most capacious room available to two friends.

The ingenious and erroneous light shed on the Holy Ghost has always been the first thing I remember when I think about the novel. Sometimes I can sense Graham Greene feeling rather smug after writing this chapter.