Piety and passion were in great supply
The world was a dark and depressing place in those days. There were people everywhere. Most of those people considered most of the other people something less than people. All the people wanted all the other people the hell out of their country.
Everybody believed in Someone or Something and whatever anybody believed, they believed it completely. Their belief in their belief was unbelievable. They had complete faith in their faith. The only thing they doubted was doubt itself.
There were two things, however, that everyone believed, no matter what they believed: Whatever they believed was unbelievably right, and what everybody else believed was unbelievably wrong.
Piety and passion were in great supply. Homelands were not.
Arm dealers had never been busier.
It was a dark and depressing place
Everybody believed in Someone or Something and whatever anybody believed, they believed it completely. Their belief in their belief was unbelievable. They had complete faith in their faith. The only thing they doubted was doubt itself.
There were two things, however, that everyone believed, no matter what they believed: Whatever they believed was unbelievably right, and what everybody else believed was unbelievably wrong.
Piety and passion were in great supply. Homelands were not.
Arm dealers had never been busier.
It was a dark and depressing place
Beware of God, Shalom Auslander
publicada por Radagast às
18:38
4 Comentários:
É uma escolha infeliz a tua Radagast, porque passa uma ideia completamente diferente da do que escreve o Auslander... Mas uma vez que estamos em pleno Yom Kippur, perdoo-te.
Passa? Não sei, ele passa muitas ideias e umas não se anulam às outras. Veremos mais por aqui.
Parece saído do livro de Job: pomposo e absolutamente deprimente. Não te faz rir em momento algum: que é o que o Auslander sabe fazer de melhor, mostrar-te que é possível rir. That's my point.
Eu entendi isso. O tipo tem piada, não tanto quanto esperava mas assim tem piada. Apenas que este excerto me faz lembrar demasiadas coisas para que me seja indiferente.
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