It's also a masterful avoidance of a trial trap. If she'd said "yes", she'd been guilty of hubristic heresy, if she'd said "no", she'd have admmitted to being a lost soul. No wonder this was one of the original trial bits which Shaw used in Saint Joan without changing the phrasing - it can't be improved on!
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Date: 2018-09-28 10:22 am (UTC)