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day at the beach yourself.
Black
   
You dont know what he wants.
White
   
No. I do not.
Black
   
He wants what everbody wants.
White
   
And that is?
Black
   
He wants to be loved by God.
White
   
I dont want to be loved by God.
Black
   
I love that. See how you cut right to it? He dont either. Accordin to him. He just wants a drink of whiskey. You a smart man, Professor. You tell me which one makes sense and which one dont.
White
   
I dont want a drink of whiskey, either.
Black
   
I thought you just got done askin for one?
White
   
I mean as a general proposition.
Black
   
We aint talkin about no general propositions. We talkin about a drink.
White
   
I dont have a drinking problem.
Black
   
Well you got some kind of a problem.
White
   
Well whatever kind of a problem I have it’s not something that I imagine can be addressed with a drink of liquor.
Black
   
Mm. I love the way you put that. So what can it be addressed with?
White
   
I think you know what it can be addressed with.
Black
   
The Sunset Limited.
White
   
Yes.
Black
   
And that’s what you want.
White
   
That’s what I want. Yes.
Black
   
That’s a mighty big drink of whiskey, Professor.
White
   
That I dont really want.
Black
   
That you dont really want. Yes.
White
   
Well. I think I do want it.
Black
   
Of course you do, honey. If you didnt we wouldnt be settin here.
White
   
Well. I disagree with you.
Black
   
That’s all right. That’s the hand I’m playin.
White
   
I dont think you understand that people such as myself see a yearning for God as something lacking in those people.
Black
   
I do understand that. Couldnt agree more.
White
   
You agree with that?
Black
   
Sure I do. What’s lackin is God.
White
   
Well, as I say, we’ll just have to disagree.
Black
   
You aint closin down the forum for discussion are you?
White
   
Not at this juncture.
Black
   
Cause I had a little more to say.
White
   
How did I know that?
Black
   
I did go to one or two AA meetins. Lot of folks didnt like the God part of it all that much but I hadnt set there too long fore I figured out that the God part was really all the part they was. The problem wasnt that they was too much God in AA it was that they wasnt enough. And I got a pretty thick head about some things but I finally figured out that what was true about AA was probably true about a lot of other things too.
White
   
Well I’m sorry, but to me the whole idea of God is just a load of crap.

The black puts his hand to his chest and leans back.
Black
   
Oh Lord have mercy oh save us Jesus. The professor’s done blasphemed all over us. We aint never gone be saved now.

He closes his eyes and shakes his head, laughing silently.
White
   
You dont find that an evil thing to say.
Black
   
Oh Mercy. No, Professor. I dont. But you does.
White
   
No I dont. It’s simply a fact.
Black
   
No it aint no simply a fact. It’s the biggest fact about you. It’s just about the only fact.
White
   
But you dont seem to think that it’s so bad.
Black
   
Well, I know it to be curable. So it aint
that
bad. If you talkin about what that man up there thinks about it I figure he’s probably seen enough of it that it dont bother him as bad as you might think. I mean, what if somebody told you that you didnt exist. And you settin there listenin to him say it. That wouldnt really piss you off, would it?
White
   
No. You’d just feel sorry for them.
Black
   
I think that’s right. You might even try to get some help for em. Now in my case he had to holler at me out loud and me layin on a slab in two pieces that they’d sewed back together where some nigger done tried to core me like a apple but still I got to say that if God is God then he can speak to your heart at any time and furthermore I got to say that if he spoke to me—which he