Subject: GREENE (was "atheism")
From: Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Date: Wed Jan 19 2000 - 12:28:21 EST
Yup, I think I'm going to have to spend my summer vacation once again
reading Graham Greene from beginning to end--especially now that Scottie
joins Sonny with a rousing endorsement. (...or maybe Sonny joined Scottie,
or maybe they acted independently--it's so hard to establish chronology or
connectedness in the bananafishbowl! )
Although a cradle agnostic
> who in life runs a mile from the company of believers, I've always
> been considerably more affected by Greene than, for example, Salinger.
> And The End of the Affair seems to me his undoubted masterpiece,
> one of the very few books I never tire of re-reading.
>
Oh my god (or lack of same) THE HUMAN FACTOR !!!!! (was it false
modesty or genuine humility that provoked a prose master like Greene to call
such works 'entertainments'?)
Cheers,
Paul
PS--Oh, and by the way, Scottie, if the pews in many American chapels aren't
statistically overfull these days (and I think, in fact, that they ARE
pretty full....), the airwaves certainly are! Televangelism is (it seems to
me) THE utterly American entertainment, and it's EVERYWHERE!!!!!
OSR--Radio Evangelism was, of course, a big thing in the USA throughout the
Thirties, and into the Forties.... I wonder whether Father Divine might not
have preceeded or followed "It's a Wise Child" on the schedule....
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