[lit-ideas] Re: Ask the Ayatollah
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 09:11:19 -0400
Sounds just like God. Everybody's done so well and look at you, you're a
deadbeat like your father. Now Seymour, Seymour's a good boy. Why can't
you be like Seymour? Amen.
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> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 10/7/2006 1:26:55 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Ask the Ayatollah
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> >>Christians do fast.
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> 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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