Dr. J. Budziszewski
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You can count on me that I will never see the movie version of The Scarlet Letter because I've read in the reviews of it that...
The adultery of the characters, which is, of course, the central theme, is presented as a good thing in the movie.
And at the end, you know, the adulterers live happily ever after.
You know, this is, that's not a dramatization of the novel.
That's just a scandal.
It is, yeah.
I discovered Dostoevsky very, very late.
Tolstoy.
Tolstoy.
Well, you see?
You see, I did mean Tolstoy and the brothers Karamazov and all that stuff.
And, you know, I get everybody's names wrong.
Yeah, you were saying this.
You sometimes called your daughters the name of your cats.
Yeah, and I was talking to a colleague once, and he said, that's nothing.
I called my kids by the names of the pets.
I said, these were the dead cats.
He said, you win.
I would forget sometimes.
I'd be typing away, working at my computer, and one of my little girls would come in and say, Dad.