If I were God, I certainly wouldn’t want people to love me sentimentally. It’s too unreliable.
Nicholson flicked his cigarette ash off to one side
Nicholson flicked his cigarette ash off to one side. “I take it you have no emotions?” he said.
Teddy reflected before answering. “If I do, I don’t remember when I ever used them,” he said. “I don’t see what they’re good for.”
“You love God, don’t you?” Nicholson asked, with a little excess of quietness. “Isn’t that your forte, so to speak? From what I heard on that tape and from what Al Babcock–”
“Yes, sure, I love Him. But I don’t love Him sentimentally. He never said anybody had to love Him sentimentally,” Teddy said. “If I were God, I certainly wouldn’t want people to love me sentimentally. It’s too unreliable.”
by J. D. Salinger(January 1, 1919 – )
from the short story “Teddy”
found in Nine Stories
image – ~RLU~
September 7th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
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