GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, S/D

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Here's the passage that I quoted from upthread. I think about it a lot.

DE STOGUMBER. Well, you see, I did a very cruel thing once because I did not know what cruelty was like. I had not seen it, you know. That is the great thing: you must see it. And then you are redeemed and saved.

CAUCHON. Were not the sufferings of our Lord Christ enough for you?

DE STOGUMBER. No. Oh no: not at all. I had seen them in pictures, and read of them in books, and been greatly moved by them, as I thought. But it was no use: it was not our Lord that redeemed me, but a young woman whom I saw actually burned to death. It was dreadful: oh, most dreadful. But it saved me. I have been a different man ever since, though a little astray in my wits sometimes.

CAUCHON. Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

Lily Dale, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 05:43 (three years ago) link

sometime soon i will watch that '40s film of Caesar and Cleopatra

brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 July 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link


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