– Did you ever read the Bible?
– The Bible… I must have taken a look at it.
– Do you remember the story of two thieves, crucified at the same time as our Saviour? Two thieves. One is supposed to have been saved and the other damned. And yet how is it that of the four Evangelists only one speaks of a thief being saved. The four of them were there –or thereabouts– and only one speaks of a thief being saved. Of the other three, two don’t mention any thieves at all and the third says that both of them abused him.
– Well? They don’t agree and that’s all there is to it.
– But all four were there. And only one speaks of a thief being saved. Why believe him rather than the others?
– Who believes him?
– Everybody. It’s the only version they know.
– People are bloody ignorant apes.
Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot