Buckley and Muggeridge
I used to have a video tape of William F. Buckley Jr's holiday interview with Malcolm Muggeridge. Alas, I have lost it. Occasionally I dig through boxes trying to come up with the inspiring exchange on Christianity. No luck. I have found the transcript though. You can read it here.
A parable from the interview:
"Some very humane, simpleminded old lady sees the play King Lear performed and she is outraged that a poor old man should be so humiliated, so made to suffer. And in the eternal shade she meets Shakespeare, and she says to him, 'What a brutal thing that was, what a monstrous thing, to make that old man go through all that.' And Shakespeare says 'Yes, I quite agree. It was very painful. And I could, of course, have arranged for him to take a sedative at the end of Act I, but then ma'am, there would have been no play."
A parable from the interview:
"Some very humane, simpleminded old lady sees the play King Lear performed and she is outraged that a poor old man should be so humiliated, so made to suffer. And in the eternal shade she meets Shakespeare, and she says to him, 'What a brutal thing that was, what a monstrous thing, to make that old man go through all that.' And Shakespeare says 'Yes, I quite agree. It was very painful. And I could, of course, have arranged for him to take a sedative at the end of Act I, but then ma'am, there would have been no play."
Thanks for the link! Merry Christmas!!
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You're quite welcome. Thank you for locating it. Now if you can just find the video for me. . .Merry Christmas, Pauli.
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