December 11, 2002
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Culture Clash at Midnight
in the Garden of Good and Evil
From the Catholic Church:
John V. Apczynski
Dept. of Theology
St. Bonaventure U.
From Paris, Texas:
Sam Shepard, playwright,
actor, and author of
Great Dream of Heaven.
In a future life, if not in this one, Dante might assign these two theologians to Purgatory, where they could teach one another. Both might benefit if Shepard took Apczynski’s course “The Intellectual Journey“ and if Apczynski read Shepard’s new book of short stories, Great Dream of Heaven.
Background music might consist of Sinatra singing “Three Coins in the Fountain” (for Shepard — See my journal notes of December 10, 2002) alternating with the Dixie Chicks singing “Cowboy, Take Me Away” (for Apczynski, who is perhaps unfamiliar with life on the range). Today’s site music is this fervent prayer by the Dixie Chicks to a cowboy-theologian like Shepard.
