[lit-ideas] Re: Ask the Ayatollah
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 01:27:26 -0400
>>Christians do fast.
Makes me think of the ending of _Thais_ by Anatole France.
One of the characters is a self-mortifying monk, a stylite
sitting on a pillar for twenty years. After twenty years,
God shows up and gives the stylite a good talking to, saying
the equivalent of, "What are you doing up here? You've been
mean to all the people around you and mean to your own body
and where has it brought you? Nowhere. You're no closer to
me than you were before. While the people you've dismissed
as superficial have grown in their love, you've been up here
as an enemy of life."
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