We talk about Paradise, we talk about Heaven, and we talk about Eden, and that’s all fine, but the problem is of course us – we’d ruin anything. Paradise is Paradise and I’m not denying that, but if we had anything to do with it then it wouldn’t be paradise for very long. Humans will ruin anything, as you know very well yourself. ‘Why are humans so bad?’ I hear you ask. ‘Why do they have to screw everything up?’ Yes – there is a heaven! There is a heaven but you and I will never know it, I can assure you of that. We won’t even catch a glimpse of it, I’m afraid. The better the good thing the greedier we get and that’s a natural law. Well, as far as I’m concerned it’s a natural law, anyway. Can you imagine the horrors that would unfold were the Gates of Paradise to be open to commercial practises? All things gravitate to their own proper level however and I don’t think there’s any getting around that. You can be sure that there is no getting around that. Absolutely not. So, we’re breaking into Paradise, we’re taking Heaven by storm – isn’t that what they say? And so obviously this is going to work out for us really well. Isn’t that the way it generally goes? Yes – there is a heaven, there really is, but the one thing that we can be very sure about is that there are going to be no humans in it. But I think I’ve talked long enough about that. I’m only repeating myself at this stage. It’s all a bit of a joke when you actually think about it – the way we’ve been told that we will for sure ascend to that Blessed State of Being if we do all the good things that we have been told to do, if we fulfil – as it were – the terms and conditions that we have been made so familiar with over the long, dreary centuries. The world was created by Satan – so we have been taught – as The Supreme Act of Spite, and ever since we have been compelled by our guilt to be grateful. Are we grateful enough, though? That’s the question. That’s the question that weighs so very heavily upon us – Can we ever be grateful enough? That’s a rhetorical question of course – it’s a rhetorical question because we all know very well that this is a debt that we can never repay. How could we think that we could? Instead, all we can do is try to atone for our shocking lack of gratitude by submitting daily to the atrocious ordeal of contemporaneous existence. But the suffering is never enough, the suffering is never enough…
