The Sunset Limited Page #2

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- Yes.

- But you didn't.

- No.

- You load it all off on Cecil.

Yes.

But Cecil can't defend himself

on account that he ain't in

agreement with everybody else,

so his word don't count,

aside from the fact

that you made him up and

he's green and everything.

He's not the one who's green. I am.

Where is this going?

I'm just trying to

find out about Cecil.

I don't think so.

Can you see Jesus?

No, I can't see him.

- But you talk to him.

- Don't miss a day.

- And he talks to you.

- I have heard him, yes.

Do you hear him,

like, out loud?

No no, not out loud.

I don't hear a voice.

I don't hear my own,

for that matter.

But I have heard him.

But why couldn't Jesus

just be in your head?

He is in my head.

Well, then I don't understand what

it is you're trying to tell me.

I know you don't,

honey. Look,

the first thing

you got to understand is

I ain't got an original

thought in my head.

If it ain't got the lingering

scent of divinity to it,

- I ain't interested in it.

- The lingering scent of divinity.

- Yeah, you like that?

- It's not bad.

Heard it on the radio...

a black preacher.

The point is, is I done

tried it the other way.

I don't mean

no chipping neither.

I mean blindfold, running through

the woods, bit in my teeth...

Lord, didn't I try it!

If you can find somebody gave

it a better shot than me,

I'd like to meet him,

I surely would.

And what you think that got me?

I don't know.

What did it get you?

Life in death

is what it got me.

Life in death.

Too dead to even know

enough to lay down.

I see.

I don't think so.

Let me ask you a question.

All right.

You ever read this book?

I've read parts of it.

I've read in it.

Have you ever read it?

Read the book of job.

Have you ever read it?

No.

- But you is read a lot of books?

- Yes.

- How many, you say?

- I have no idea.

Ballpark.

Two a week,

maybe 100 a year

for close to 40 years.

Two a week...

I'm just messing

with you, professor.

Tell you what...

Give me a number,

any number you like, and I'll

give you 40 times it back.

- 26.

- 1040.

- 118.

- 4720.

- 4720.

- Yep.

- The answer is the question.

- Say what?

- That's your new number.

- 4720?

- That's a big number, professor.

- Yes, it is.

- You know the answer?

- No, I don't.

Let me see that.

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