Frank Templeton Prince

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    I feel a strange delight that fills me full,
    Strange gratitude, as if evil itself were beautiful,
    —Frank Templeton Prince (b. 1912)

    He can have this old life anytime he wants to. You hear that? Huh, you hear it? Come on. You’re welcome to it, Old Timer. Let me know you’re up there, come on. Love me, hate me, kill me,
    anything. Just let me know it.
    Donn Pierce, U.S. screenwriter, Frank R. Pierson, and Stuart Rosenberg. Luke Jackson (Paul Newman)

    And even we must know, that nobody has understood,
    That some great love is over all we do,
    And that is what has driven us to this fury, for so few
    Can suffer all the terror of that love:
    —Frank Templeton Prince (b. 1912)

    A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War—Mars. As such, he is as incongruous as a musket would be on the altar at Christmas. Why, then, is he there? Because he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too he lends the sanction of the religion of the meek to that which practically is the abrogation of everything but brute Force.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)