Loving The Language Of The King James Bible

“Modern skin has spots: the King James gives us botches, collops and blains, horridly and lumpily different. … In the King James, people are aggressively physical. They shoot out their lips, stretch forth their necks and wink with their eyes; they open their mouths wide and say ‘Aha, aha’, wagging their heads, in ways that would get them arrested in Wal-Mart.”