B is for barrabás

Drop cap inspired by the first paragraph of Isabel Allende’s masterpiece, House of Spirits:

“Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy. She was already in the habit of writing down important matters, and afterward, when she was mute, she also recorded trivialities (…) Barrabas arrived on a Holy Thursday. He was in a despicable cage (…) and had the lost look of a hapless, utterly defenseless prisoner; but the regal carriage of his head and the size of his frame bespoke the legendary giant he would become.”