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I began closing my show by announcing, “I’m not going home tonight I’m going to Bananaland, a place where only two things are true, only two things: One, all chairs are green and two, no chairs are green.” Not at Lewis Carroll’s level, but the line worked for my contemporaries, and I loved implying that the one thing I believed in was a contradiction. The comedy doors opened wide, and Lewis Carroll’s clever fancies from the nineteenth century expanded my notion of what comedy could be. Appearing to be silly nonsense, on examination they were absolutely logical-yet they were still funny. “These word games bothered and intrigued me. There I was forty-five years old and I didn't know whether there was "evil" in the world.” People are either crazy, miserable, or wonderful, so where does the "evil" come in? The mark of the age is that terrible things happen but there is no "evil" involved. God may be absent, but what if one should find the devil? Do you think I wouldn't be pleased to meet the devil? Ha, ha, I'd shake his hand like a long-lost friend. For everything and everyone's either wonderful or sick and nothing is evil. "Evil" is surely the clue to this age, the only quest appropriate to the age. One hundred and twenty thousand dead at Hiroshima? Where was the evil of that? Was Harry Truman evil? As for the pilot and bombardier, they were by all accounts wonderful fellows, good fathers and family men. It is even possible that there was no such order, that it was all a bureaucratic mistake. And it seems nobody else was responsible. What about Hitler, the gas ovens and so forth? What about them? As everyone knows and says, Hitler was a madman. But we have plenty of evil around you say. A different cup of tea! That would bring matters to a screeching halt. This is an age of interest.īut suppose you could show me one "sin," one pure act of malevolence. But what different would it make in the end? People would be interested for a while, yes. Millions of visitors! I would be as curious as the next person and would stand in line for hours to see it. Or suppose the Lowell Professor of Religion at Harvard should actually find the Holy Grail, dig it up in an Israeli wadi, properly authenticate it, carbon date it, and present it to the Metropolitan Museum. If you had ten thousand Albert Schweitzers giving their lives for their fellow men, do you think anyone would have a second thought about God? When everyone is wonderful, nobody bothers with God.
You should be interested! Such a quest serves God's cause! How? Because the Good proves nothing. In times like these when everyone is wonderful, what is needed is a quest for evil. Do you know what I was? The Knight of the Unholy Grail. “We've spoken of the Knights of the Holy Grail, Percival.
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