'It May Be Better to Go Off With a Bang'

When the lady Mary poured pressure-sitement on his feet and anointed him, they said the same thing that the members of the Vestry say to the minister today. Why? This great expense. Couldn't it all have been sold for much money and given to the poor? It is a problem. But you see, in many ways when you get down to these very deep ethical problems, well, there sure is no easy decision one way or the other. You must look at the problem from the point of view of an artist. Which way of doing this is in some sense greater? It may be better to go off with a bang than with a wind.