George Saunders

Maybe I lived out of alignment with truth.

And at that point, he begins this rapid transformation.

Salvation in that moment is aligning yourself with what is actually true.

The truth is you lived your life in the wrong way.

And at some point he says, all right, I can't go back in time, but I can start now, essentially.

I can start being in alignment with truth.

I didn't live in the right way.

And you can feel the pain start to go out of him as soon.

So the idea that there's physical suffering is,

And then there's the suffering of denial on top of it.

You know, and we all know that.

Like if your leg hurts, but you can't let it hurt, it kind of hurts more, you know?

So I think that's what in the book, the Frenchman correctly posits that if they could just get Boone to say, yeah, I lied.

I really did.

I'm sorry.

That that would represent a better state of being for him than the one in which he actually dies and which he continues to deny it.

So that's the truth.

I think there has to be, yeah.

You have to be in relation to what you actually did.

So sin, I mean, it's a word I brought from my Catholic childhood.