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Nadia 2022-06-13 21:59:48
so dark night
I have a small book in my bookcase that I bought ten years ago. I used to find it among the many books, look at the black cover, flip through it, and put it back. I'm pretty familiar with this story, but I still feel like I haven't read the book. Its strangeness, deepness, mystery, and obscurity...
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Angela 2022-06-13 20:18:10
This deformed world has no room for aliens
God and the devil have always been two important opposing images in the narrative of western religious films. Justice and evil are always fighting and confronting each other. One side tries to overcome the other side. Most of the films discuss how the former overcomes the latter, and then a harmony...
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Donissan: God is mocking me.
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[first lines]
Donissan: With you, everything looks easy. Alone, I'm useless. I'm like the zero, only useful next to other numbers. Priests are so miserable. They waste their lives seeing God being ignored. People make jokes on us. We're like those walls where people write obscenities.
Menou-Segrais: You're tired.
Donissan: Tired? I'm not tired. Tired is a bad thought.
Menou-Segrais: Suspend your visits.
Donissan: Those visits do more harm than good. In the beginning, I didn't know evil. I learned it from the mouths of the sinners.
Menou-Segrais: No one knows better than a priest about the terrible monotony of sin.
Donissan: I can't speak to them. I can't only make absolutions and feel sorry.
Menou-Segrais: If one absolution in thirty was worthy, the world would be brief.
