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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Saints and Sinners
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Date: Fri, 7-Sep-84 09:00:31 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  7 09:00:31 1984
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I came across this whilst reading, last night.  Thought it
might be appropriate to the discussion of how interesting sin is.

"'Nothing is so beautiful and wonderful, nothing is so continually
fresh and surprising, so full of sweet and perpetual ecstasy as
the good,' Simone Weil writes.  'No desert is so dreary, monotonous
and boring as evil.'  True; but as she goes on to point out, with
fantasy it is the other way round - 'Fictional good is boring and   <-
flat, while fictional evil is varied and intriguing, attractive,    <-
profound, and full of charm.'  Alas, so much of my life has been    <-
spent pursuing this fictional good, and forgetful of the other,
the real good, that is ever inspiring, ever renewed, making us,
again to quote Simone Weil, 'grow wings to overcome gravity.'"

Malcolm Muggeridge.  "The Infernal Grove.  Chronicles of Wasted Time:
Number 2."
-- 
Paul DuBois		{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois

Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage forever: for they
are the rejoicing of my heart.
					Psalm 119:111