The Sunset Limited

I don't remember much after that. They, um.... 561 00:30:14,980 --> 00:30:19,567 They told me I had lost almost half my blood. 562 00:30:21,069 --> 00:30:27,074 I remember slipping around in it, but I thought it was the other dude's. 563 00:30:32,206 --> 00:30:36,125 - Did the man die? - No, he didn't. 564 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:39,545 Everybody lived. 565 00:30:39,713 --> 00:30:42,381 They thought he was dead, but he wasn't. 566 00:30:42,716 --> 00:30:45,635 He wasn't right after that... 567 00:30:45,802 --> 00:30:49,096 ...so I ain't really had no more trouble out of him. 568 00:30:49,264 --> 00:30:51,974 He walked around with his head kind of to the side... 569 00:30:52,142 --> 00:30:53,392 ...lost one eye... 570 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:56,854 ...arm's hanging down, didn't talk right. 571 00:30:58,148 --> 00:31:00,358 They shipped him off to another facility. 572 00:31:00,526 --> 00:31:02,401 But that's not the whole story. 573 00:31:02,569 --> 00:31:05,112 - No, it ain't. - So, what happened? 574 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,658 I woke up in the infirmary. They had already done operated on me. 575 00:31:08,825 --> 00:31:13,538 My spleen was cut open, liver, I don't know what all. 576 00:31:13,705 --> 00:31:15,623 I come pretty close to dying. 577 00:31:15,791 --> 00:31:19,085 I had 280 stitches holding me together... 578 00:31:19,253 --> 00:31:23,422 ...and, whoo, I was hurting. 579 00:31:23,590 --> 00:31:25,216 I didn't know you could hurt that much. 580 00:31:25,384 --> 00:31:29,095 And still they had me in leg irons and had me handcuffed to the bed... 581 00:31:29,263 --> 00:31:30,596 ...if you can believe that. 582 00:31:30,764 --> 00:31:35,726 Now, as I lay there, I heard this voice just as clear... 583 00:31:35,894 --> 00:31:37,395 ...couldn't have been no clearer. 584 00:31:37,563 --> 00:31:39,564 And the voice said: 585 00:31:40,399 --> 00:31:45,861 "If it was not for the grace of God you would not be here." 586 00:31:46,029 --> 00:31:51,117 Man, I tried to sit up and look around, but I couldn't. 587 00:31:51,285 --> 00:31:53,494 Wasn't no need to no how, because wasn't nobody there. 588 00:31:53,662 --> 00:31:56,414 I mean, there was somebody there, all right... 589 00:31:56,582 --> 00:31:59,375 ...but wasn't no need for me looking around to see if I could see him. 590 00:31:59,543 --> 00:32:01,544 You don't think this is a strange kind of story? 591 00:32:02,504 --> 00:32:04,630 Yeah, I do think it's a strange kind of story. 592 00:32:04,798 --> 00:32:08,009 No, what I mean is that you didn't feel sorry for this man. 593 00:32:08,176 --> 00:32:09,969 Oh, you getting ahead of the story. 594 00:32:10,178 --> 00:32:13,222 The story of how a fellow inmate became a crippled one-eyed halfwit... 595 00:32:13,390 --> 00:32:14,974 ...so that you could find God. 596 00:32:15,183 --> 00:32:16,851 - Oh. - Well, isn't it? 597 00:32:17,019 --> 00:32:19,020 - I don't know. - You hadn't thought of it that way? 598 00:32:19,187 --> 00:32:21,439 Oh, yeah, hell, I thought of it that way. 599 00:32:21,607 --> 00:32:24,275 Well, isn't that the true story? 600 00:32:24,568 --> 00:32:27,028 Look, professor, I don't want to get on the wrong side of you. 601 00:32:27,195 --> 00:32:31,282 And you seem to have a powerful wish for that to be the story... 602 00:32:31,450 --> 00:32:34,577 ...so I got to say that is one way of looking at it. 603 00:32:34,745 --> 00:32:37,580 I gotta concede that. Gotta keep you interested. 604 00:32:37,748 --> 00:32:40,041 - String me along. - You all right with that? 605 00:32:40,208 --> 00:32:43,336 And then put me in the, uh-- What is it? The trick bag? 606 00:32:43,503 --> 00:32:45,087 - Yeah. - Right. 607 00:32:45,255 --> 00:32:46,922 You got to remember. 608 00:32:47,090 --> 00:32:48,716 - This is a jailhouse story. - All right. 609 00:32:48,884 --> 00:32:51,177 - Which you specifically asked for. - All right. 610 00:32:52,012 --> 00:32:55,264 The point is, professor, I ain't got the first notion in the world... 611 00:32:55,432 --> 00:32:58,309 ...about what makes God tick. I don't know why he spoke to me. 612 00:32:58,518 --> 00:33:00,478 - I know I wouldn't have. - But you listened. 613 00:33:00,687 --> 00:33:03,856 - What choice would you have? - I don't know. Um.... 614 00:33:04,024 --> 00:33:05,107 Not listen. 615 00:33:05,942 --> 00:33:08,986 You think he goes around talking to people... 616 00:33:09,154 --> 00:33:12,031 ...he knows ain't gonna listen to him in the first place? 617 00:33:15,202 --> 00:33:17,870 You think he got that kind of free time? 618 00:33:19,706 --> 00:33:21,540 Why is it you people can't just accept it... 619 00:33:21,708 --> 00:33:23,918 ...that some people don't even want to believe in God? 620 00:33:24,086 --> 00:33:26,337 - I can accept that.