{"id":99,"date":"2024-02-28T19:50:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T00:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shakespearesshoes.com\/?page_id=99"},"modified":"2024-03-12T14:35:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T18:35:07","slug":"fiction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shakespearesshoes.com\/index.php\/big-shoes\/fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cGod Only Knows\u201d &#8211; A Chat Between God and Satan<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_790\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-790\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-790\" src=\"https:\/\/shakespearesshoes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/God-Only-Knows.jpeg\" alt=\"God Only Knows\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shakespearesshoes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/God-Only-Knows.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/shakespearesshoes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/God-Only-Knows-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Diego PH on Unsplash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><strong>The following is a story \u2014 probably not a true story \u2014 that may have been told by an Auschwitz survivor. It goes like this. God and Satan have an unscheduled meeting around the beginning of 1944, over 56 years before their usually scheduled meeting at the start of each century. Satan calls the meeting, flabbergasted by the sheer enormity of the carnage going on in the death camps, especially Auschwitz.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark>: How can you let it go on?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark>: What do you mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: What do I mean? You must be losing it, but you are surely not losing it to me.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong>: I no longer meddle in their affairs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: Their affairs? They are annihilating your so-called chosen people.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong>: Are they?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: My goodness! They are and at an alarming rate. They have created a hell of their own; they have created Hell and are sending to it every Jew that they can get their claws on, as well as every Gypsy and freethinker.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong>: They will eventually stop.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: I am not sure that they will, and if they do, it may be too late for the Jews.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong>: They will be stopped sometime next year.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: So you do not mind it at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong>: I do.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: But not enough to save them.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong>: Why do you care?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: Even I recognise that they have not done anything that warrants such barbarity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong>: You did not mind all the other injustices that occurred in the past.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: I did to some degree, but they all pale in comparison.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong>: Do they now?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: That is it; you have lost it. There is no doubt about it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong>: Careful there!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: Even I would not create or oversee an Auschwitz.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong>: It cannot be that bad.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: Have you even taken a look? It must be stopped.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>: It cannot be.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: It must be.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>: I forbid it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: How about a bargain?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>: I will not be fooled again.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: I will let you have all their souls if you stop it right now.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>: No!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: No?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>: No.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: I will let you have ten percent of all my souls.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>: No!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: What do you want, then?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>: You are the one bargaining.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: You have to give me something.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>: Do I? Very well. I will stop it the moment that a whiff of smoke billowing from the Auschwitz crematoria reaches the nostril of a Maori infant.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: In New Zealand?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>: Yes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: You will stop it and purge it from history.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>: I will not do the latter.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: You will stop it the moment that a whiff of smoke billowing from the Auschwitz crematoria reaches the nostril of a Maori infant in New Zealand and then purge it from history.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>: No!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: My goodness! Are not you the devil?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>: Watch it now!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: So you will only stop it the moment that a whiff of smoke billowing from the Auschwitz crematoria reaches the nostril of a Maori infant in New Zealand.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>: Yes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: How lucky you are that most of them are oblivious.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>: I am God, after all.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: That, you are.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>: Are you being facetious?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: Not at all. I am Satan, after all.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>: That, you are.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: That, I am.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">God<\/mark><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>: You are being facetious.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Satan<\/mark><\/strong>: God only knows.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"ee5c\"><strong>Beethoven &#8211; Ludwig\u2019s Answers<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_797\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-797\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-797\" src=\"https:\/\/shakespearesshoes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Beethoven.jpg\" alt=\"Beethoven\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shakespearesshoes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Beethoven.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shakespearesshoes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Beethoven-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Fralac (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p id=\"2cef\"><strong>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philo5.com\/Penser%20par%20soi-meme\/QuestionnaireBernardPivot.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original questionnaire<\/a>&nbsp;by Bernard Pivot (French literary talkshow host), adapted by James Lipton (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0169455\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Inside the Actors Studio<\/a>), may offer an interested idea about the individual replying to the ten questions being asked; in this case, Ludwig van Beethoven, the one and only<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"be1c\"><strong>What is your favourite word?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"be1c\"><strong><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Music<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"902a\"><strong>What is your least favourite word?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"902a\"><strong><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Royalty, anything royal.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d82e\"><strong>What is your favourite drug?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d82e\"><strong><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Music, and love.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8c44\"><strong>What sound or noise do you love?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"8c44\"><strong><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The piano, anytime.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"e613\"><strong>What sound or noise do you hate?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"e613\"><strong><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Small talk, especially by men.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4128\"><strong>What is your favourite curse word?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"4128\"><strong><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;K\u00fcss meinen Arsch&nbsp;<\/em>(Kiss my ass)<em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d046\"><strong>Who would you like to see on a new banknote?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d046\"><strong><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Myself, of course!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0d79\"><strong>What profession other than your own would you not like to attempt?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0d79\"><strong><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ass-kisser.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d65d\"><strong>If you were reincarnated as some other plant or animal, what would it be?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d65d\"><em><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Lion, or blue whale.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3f96\"><strong>If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"3f96\"><strong><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;You can sit on my right.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGod Only Knows\u201d &#8211; A Chat Between God and Satan The following is a story \u2014 probably not a true story \u2014 that may have been told by an Auschwitz survivor. 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