Thank you Tony Kushner:
But still. Still. Bless me anyway.
I want more life. I can't help myself. I do.
I've lived through such terrible times, and there are people who live through much, much worse, but...You see them living anyway.
When they're more spirit than body, more sores than skin, when they're burned and in agony, when flies lay eggs in the corners of the eyes of their children, they live. Death usually has to take life away. I don't know if that's just the animal. I don't know if it's not braver to die. But I recognize the habit. The addiction to being alive. We live past hope. If I can find hope anywhere, that's it, that's the best I can do. It's so much not enough, so inadequate, but...Bless me anyway. I want more life.
God isn't coming back. And even if He did...If He ever did come back, if He ever dared to show his face in the Garden again...If after all this destruction, if after all the terrible days of this terrible century He returned, to see how much suffering his abandonment had created, if He ever returns, you should sue the bastard. That's my only contribution to all this Theology. Sue the bastard for walking out. How dare He.
--Prior, Angels in America
But still. Still. Bless me anyway.
I want more life. I can't help myself. I do.
I've lived through such terrible times, and there are people who live through much, much worse, but...You see them living anyway.
When they're more spirit than body, more sores than skin, when they're burned and in agony, when flies lay eggs in the corners of the eyes of their children, they live. Death usually has to take life away. I don't know if that's just the animal. I don't know if it's not braver to die. But I recognize the habit. The addiction to being alive. We live past hope. If I can find hope anywhere, that's it, that's the best I can do. It's so much not enough, so inadequate, but...Bless me anyway. I want more life.
God isn't coming back. And even if He did...If He ever did come back, if He ever dared to show his face in the Garden again...If after all this destruction, if after all the terrible days of this terrible century He returned, to see how much suffering his abandonment had created, if He ever returns, you should sue the bastard. That's my only contribution to all this Theology. Sue the bastard for walking out. How dare He.
--Prior, Angels in America