The \u201cAnne Frank House\u201d at Prinsengracht 263, in Amsterdam
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Last Monday afternoon, my wife and I attended a performance at the Hale Centre Theatre in Sandy of The Addams Family<\/em>.\u00a0 Although it\u2019s not by any means my favorite play, I repeat, yet again, that the Hale theaters are a treasure for those who live along the Wasatch Front.\u00a0 I hesitate to plug them much because, so far as I can see, their performances are always either full or very close to it.\u00a0 So I\u2019m not sure that my continual endorsements really do much good.\u00a0 In fact, to the extent that heightened demand might someday make it harder for us to get tickets or, at least, to get the seats that we want, self-interest might counsel me to simply shut up.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
My reports on the plays that we attend \u2013 and I sometimes forget altogether to mention them, so there are at least a few more on which I haven\u2019t<\/em> reported \u2013 have drawn derision in some predictable quarters.\u00a0 Supposedly, I believe that the Church is true because I attend a lot of plays, or something like that.\u00a0 Maybe the argument is really that, because I see a fair amount of theater I imagine myself to be a very sophisticated fellow, and that my claimed sophistication (in my mind, at least) lends special authority to my conviction that the claims of the Restoration are true.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Whatever.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never made any such argument and would never do so.<\/p>\n
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I just think that good theater and good films and good food and other such things make for a better life than one would have \u2013 all other things being equal \u2013 in the absence<\/em> of good food, films, and theater.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t even seem to me very controversial.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
And, of course, there are a vast number of other things that make for good lives.\u00a0 Too many things for any one individual ever to enjoy in a single lifetime or even many lifetimes.\u00a0 (Hence one of the reasons to hope for immortality and eternal life.\u00a0 There are so many good things to do, to see, to experience!)\u00a0 There are songs to be heard (many of them not written yet), places to visit (and places for which just one visit can never be enough).\u00a0 There are people \u2013 the most interesting things in the universe, so far as we\u2019re aware \u2013 to meet and to get to know.\u00a0 I cannot imagine growing tired of the sights and sounds and personalities that are out there.<\/p>\n
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