Asa Hawks tells Haze in Wise Blood: “you can’t run away from Jesus. Jesus is a fact.”

And of course Haze tries, but does not make it.  From the time he sees Jesus “moving from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around…” to the scene by the side of the road where he no longer has his car, his ‘ersatz’ “house”… he tries, but he is just not as fast as Jesus.

 

“The bull lowered his head and shook it and the wreath slipped down to the base of his horns where it looked like a menacing prickly crown.”