No Artist Could Write a Better Story

[rich]

that small story evokes so many emotions for me (as does great fiction,
movies, etc.)

richard dawkins aside, i somehow believe those letters though unopened were
read

and with the thread of rounded characters vs cartoonish I thought it
highlighted the fact that art can never approach the sad absurd beauty
of life, only approximate it

i've begun to read Unknown Soldiers about remembrances of those missing from
the first world war.

rich

On 11/2/06, David Casseres <david.casseres at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/2/06, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061102/ap_on_re_us/unanswered_prayers
> >
> > there's something truly human about this
> > rich
>
> The Sermon on the Mount says, right at the beginning of the Beatitudes,
>
> "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
>
> My father, the atheist son of a Presbyterian missionary, taught me
> that "poor in spirit" in the language of the King James Bible meant
> "feeble-minded."  Makes sense to me, and actually it's a beautiful
> sentiment.  One of the few parts of the Bible that I really like.
>
> But it's a sentiment that cuts both ways.  The story of the unread
> letters tells of the spiritual poverty -- to the point of
> feeble-mindedness -- of today's popular Christianity.
>
> One thinks of the sewer rats in V.
>
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