We are all lighted candles in a darkened world, weary travelers on the highway of life, plodding on to our endless existence! For once we exist, we continue to exist! Our span of life compared to the billions of years of time, is but a fast twinkle in the eye of God! We are all of ten seconds from Eternity and the limitless time thereafter! Surely the things we have today pass with us into this pleasurable void!
--The Amazing Criswell
The paragraph goes on for for 10 more sentences. Nine of them end in an exclamation point. The lone exception ended in a question mark.
Passages like this remind me of the opening of "Plan 9 From Outer Space," the Edward D. Wood Jr film that featured Criswell as the narrator. It makes me wonder if Criswell was responsible for writing his own narration.
All of on this earth know that there is a time to live, and that there is a time to die. And yet, death is always a shock to those left behind. It is even more of a shock when Death, the Proud Brother comes suddenly without warning. Just at sundown, a small group, gathered in silent prayer around the newly opened grave of the beloved wife of an elderly man. Sundown of the day, yet also the sundown of the old man's heart, for the shadows of grief clouded his very reason.
(based on Chris M. Terry's annotated transcript/script of the film, minus his added comments)
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