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[proximoception]

In Frost's next to last notebook, so written I guess in his eighties:

[Someone:] I demand to speak with God

[Someone else:] What is your business with God

S: I couldn't explain that to anybody but God

E: There is not God

S: So much the better perhaps. Because that rules out half my business. If there is no God there can be no future life. The present life is all I should have to worry about.

E: There is no future life. Are you worried about the present life.

S: Even more so because there is no future life to defer to. I see all salvation limited to here and now. Happiness cannot be put off. I must ask to see the highest authority at once.

E: You aren't mocking the saints are you?

S: Saints No! those bare-faced church introductions. Who introduced them to the church? Nobody but themselves. Let me see the highest authority there is on

[Breaks off]