With the Psalm, the Bible is easy for me because, as I say,
there's an afterword to the David book,
and, as I say in that afterword, I write in English.
And Wallace Stevens and Willa Cather and Ernest Hemingway
and Emily Dickinson and William Faulkner and all the writers
I admire and know, most of them are Protestants, the Americans.
They read the Bible a lot.
They heard it a lot.
And their prose and their actual phrases
come out of what we call the King James translation.
So there's no question.
It's a great work in English.
I'm always interested to read other translations.
I pick up what I can.
And if I'm writing about them, I look at other translations.
But I know which is the great work of art.
And that's a great work of art.
And I'm an artist.
I'm not a--
I wrote The Life of David, but I hope I'm not a biographer.
I may be a bust as a biographer.
I'm not a scholar.
I wrote about stories and the story of the stories.
And we will have one more question.