[lbo-talk] Deathbed conversion of Gramsci

[C. G. Estabrook]

In a 1960 interview with Michele Manceaux in L'Express, Luis Buñuel famously 
declared: "I am still, thank God, an atheist."

Buñuel almost seemed to repudiate this statement in a 1977 article in The New 
Yorker. "I'm not a Christian, but I'm not an atheist, either", he said. "I'm 
weary of hearing that accidental old aphorism of mine, 'I'm an atheist, thank 
God.' It's outworn. Dead leaves. In 1951, I made a small film called Mexican Bus 
Ride, about a village too poor to support a church and a priest. The place was 
serene, because no one suffered from guilt. It's guilt we must escape from, not 
God."

Doug Henwood wrote:
> God, I hope this doesn't happen to me....
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