re: The Cabin in the Woods. TulaneLSU's 2011-12 movie review thread

I am not ignoring it, but I do not yet feel worthy of something that comes with such promise. I feel as Simone Weil did, when, for twenty years, she stood on the porch of the Church, unready to enter, waiting for the command. It is not that I am ignoring your entreaties or do not want to watch the film. I do not yet feel called to see it. I would very much like to see the film, but I am waiting on the call. Perhaps you have been sent by God to guide me to this movie, for reasons neither of us yet knows. I very much expect that I will be called to see it, but not yet. Not until the divine word comes.


Love bade me welcome, yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-ey'd Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning
If I lack'd anything.

"A guest," I answer'd, "worthy to be here";
Love said, "You shall be he."
"I, the unkind, the ungrateful? ah my dear,
I cannot look on thee."
Love took my hand and smiling did reply,
"Who made the eyes but I?"

"Truth, Lord, but I have marr'd them; let my shame
Go where it doth deserve."
"And know you not," says Love, "who bore the blame?"
"My dear, then I will serve."
"You must sit down," says Love, "and taste my meat."
So I did sit and eat.

(George Hebert)