"The sin of fragmentation of character may be the most deadly sin of all; to allow ones self to scatter like weeds instead of to grow like a man. I am guilty of it. But who has ever taught me differently? O well, I may catch God on one of his good days when everything is going right. It makes a lot of difference the way you catch a Judge." Civil Blood In the early 1960s, Lafferty wrote a novel called Civil Blood . I knew a little about it before reading it. I didn’t know it