In our family, as far
as we are concerned,
we were born and what
happened before that
is myth.
I have long been interested in those whom God has helped.
It seems often to be the case,
e.g. with saints or martyrs,
that God helps them to far more suffering than they would have
without God's help. But then you get
someone like Lazarus, a man of no
particular importance,
on whom God bestows
the ultimate benevolence, without explanation, then abandons
him again to his nonentity.
V.S. Pritchett
A Cab at the Door
A Memoir
Random House, 1968©
Anne Carson
Men in the Off Hours
TV Men: Lazarus
[fragment]
Random House, 2000©
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