but i would not close off this vision - no , let me see , and all those who lifted the stones , and i , i blundering , and james ' face when i said it , i am weary of you , my brother , and from that instant outwards a million echoes of those words in all present who heard or thought they heard , who would remember , repeat , confess , defend ... and so on it goes for the lifting of a finger , the launching of the ship , the fall of an army in a northern forest , the burning of a city as flames rage through house after house !