So naturally when his soul went up to the pearly gates, he was met by Saint Peter . And Saint Peter asked him, where do you want to go? Because he had not read any of his novels, so he could not decide whether to send him to heaven or to hell.
You can go to the greatest church in Christendom, St. Peter's, and take a flash photograph of Michelangelo's Pietà. Or go to Mass right at the that high altar above the tomb of Saint Peter . Two different ways to experience that church. You can be in France during harvest time.
So he says, I would like a tour of both facilities. So first, Saint Peter takes him to hell. As they descend into the fiery pits, the writer sees row upon row of writers chained to their desks in a steaming
So just down the street from their original headquarters was this entire city block, which was up for sale. Well, everything except for this church, Saint Peter 's. So Citicorp came to the pastor, Ralph Peterson, and asked, "What's it gonna take for you guys to leave?" And he came back and said, "We're not leaving.
Given an image under a projection, like a photograph, we can infer its so-called focal length. So, for instance, Saint Peter has the keys to heaven.
But at the front of it, you have this portrait of King Edgar donating the charter-- you can see it in his hand there-- to Christ, who is seen in the mandala above them with Saint Peter and Mary on either side of him.
He got so dejected, he actually hanged himself. So naturally when his soul went up to the pearly gates, he was met by Saint Peter . And Saint Peter asked him, where do you want to go?
This is just as bad as hell. No, it is not, said Saint Peter . Here your work gets published.
Could we have a hand for Cliff? Tom Shadyac: I call Cliff, now, Saint Peter because he just toured me around heaven. Tom Shadyac: Uh, it's a little overwhelming to come here and see so many incredible things.
I like to start these talks with a story that illustrates some of the problems that we face when trying to be good, active investors. And it considers a fellow who dies-- he's an Uber driver-- and he dies in a crackup, goes up to heaven, sees Saint Peter , and goes right past him because he sees Einstein sitting at the center of this huge group of people.
And these are sort of tickets that the Catholic church would sell you to get out of purgatory after you died. And the idea was that if you gave them some money to help them build-- in this case, Saint Peter 's Rome, that giant cathedral-- they would then give you a ticket that would mean when you died, you wouldn't have to spend so long in purgatory.