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Lord's return; Mario's errand

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where his father was filming something that involved actors dressed up as God and the Devil playing poker with Tarot cards for the soul of Cosgrove Watt, using subway tokens as the ante

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Mario as the attendant son again, sent dashing from a Back Bay co-op mid-shoot for more subway tokens — the ante in Himself's film of God and the Devil playing poker for a soul. It's the 071/080/089 bond in a single subordinate clause: the disabled son running the father's errands on set, folded into the father's work as its gofer and witness. Even here, the one son Himself keeps close is the one carrying tokens for him.

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