![]() ![]() “Yes, I see that you’re smiling, Kristin. Some people lived to be pious, some people guarded their money, and some people got drunk when nobody was looking (who cared). There were rules, but the rules were sometimes relaxed for some people, and anyway people often got away with breaking the dreaded rules, you know. You had to follow, The Rules! But the reality is more mixed. People think about the Middle Ages: there was Religion. ![]() I think it was Aldous Huxley who said, “‘Thy kingdom come’, means ‘my kingdom go’.” It’s like that for me now. ‘Seas would rise when I gave the word’-although that’s not *quite* a good song if you actually get all the words, I guess because the seas really do rise when Chris Martin gives the word, and he can’t imagine it any other way he can’t imagine himself healed, and free of himself. When I ruled the world, I had no need of God. And I go further and say, for some crazy reason, it can’t be any other way on this earth. I think it’s true what the monk says, that people only give God what they consider broken. It may be just a little observational comedy, but in a way it is something more too. ![]() I found the book relatively light on life-pain, but on the other hand, it’s quite careful too, so it preserves carefully what material it does use. ![]()
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