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Walking up the hill toward CarpenterвЂ™s Road, the heels and sides of her pumps edged with drying bird shit, she attracted the glances of old men sitting on stone benches in front of the courthouse, housewives throwing buckets of water on their sidewalks, and high school students on their way home for lunch. In her right hand was a black purse with a beaded clasp and in her left a red leather traveling case, so small, so charming-no one had seen anything like it ever before, including the mayorвЂ™s wife and the music teacher, both of whom had been to Rome. A black crepe dress splashed with pink and yellow zinnias, foxtails, a black felt hat with the veil of net lowered over one eye.

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She was dressed in a manner that was as close to a movie star as anyone would ever see. Sula stepped off the Cincinnati Flyer into the robin shit and began the long climb up into the Bottom. They knew anger well but not despair, and they didnвЂ™t stone sinners for the same reason they didnвЂ™t commit suicide-it was beneath them. The purpose of evil was to survive it and they determined (without ever knowing they had made up their minds to do it) to survive floods, white people, tuberculosis, famine and ignorance. If milk could curdle, God knows robins could fall. Plague and drought were as вЂњnaturalвЂќ as springtime. They did not believe Nature was ever askew-only inconvenient. They did not believe death was accidental-life might be, but death was deliberate. They did not believe doctors could heal-for them, none ever had done so.

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What was taken by outsiders to be slackness, slovenliness or even generosity was in fact a full recognition of the legitimacy of forces other than good ones. But they let it run its course, fulfill itself, and never invented ways either to alter it, to annihilate it or to prevent its happening again. Such evil must be avoided, they felt, and precautions must naturally be taken to protect themselves from it. In spite of their fear, they reacted to an oppressive oddity, or what they called evil days, with an acceptance that bordered on welcome. What they did know was that you couldnвЂ™t go anywhere without stepping in their pearly shit, and it was hard to hang up clothes, pull weeds or just sit on the front porch when robins were flying and dying all around you.ДЄlthough most of the people remembered the time when the sky was black for two hours with clouds and clouds of pigeons, and although they were accustomed to excesses in nature-too much heat, too much cold, too little rain, rain to flooding-they still dreaded the way a relatively trivial phenomenon could become sovereign in their lives and bend their minds to its will. Nobody knew why or from where they had come. The little yam-breasted shuddering birds were everywhere, exciting very small children away from their usual welcome into a vicious stoning. Accompanied by a plague of robins, Sula came back to Medallion.