Nuggets and Aphorisms
Food for thought. These first appeared in Amit Varma's blog, India Uncut
Friday, July 22, 2005
Trouble in the next world
You just wait for the next world, you civilians, then we clergy will show you who's going to be saved. You may have the upper hand now but later on you're really going to be in the shit.Père Marais, a French priest, teasing Julian Barnes
about his atheism during a stint Barnes had as a lecteur d'anglais at the Collège Saint-Martin in Rennes in 1966-67. Quoted in Barnes's fine book of essays on France, "Something to Declare".I'm an atheist, by the way, and I think we're all in the shit. Let's have fun while it lasts.
