Eduard and God

Eduard and God is the story of a young man (Edward) who falls in love with ‘Alice’, a devout believer in God. He has just shifted to a small town, and finds a position at a school where the Director is a staunch communist and anti-religion. Eduard doesn’t really care much about God, but because he wishes to please his girlfriend (and in return get to have sex etc) he goes to Church with her on a regular basis. When the director comes to know of this, she summons him and asks him about it, he makes an excuse saying he had gone there to see the architecture.

Meanwhile since he is making no progress with the girl (despite him trying many theological aspects to sex), he changes the mode to offensive and becomes even more religious than her. He chastises her of not loving God enough, and while in the act of praying to a cross in the street he gets seen by the School janitor.

He gets summoned again, in front of a committee comprising of a colleague of his, the Director, the Janitor and a ‘Comrade Inspector’. They tell him that the school has strict rules about religion, and that any man believing in God is not fit to teach science to young students. Eduard quickly makes an excuse that he DOES believe in God but being a man of science he DOES NOT WANT to believe in God. He convinces the committee that he can be ‘re-educated’ (since Communists believed highly in converting one back to the fold), the Director (who already had a liking for the young man) takes charge of his re-education, of making him believe that God does not exist.

When he reaches the Director’s home, in a bid to please her he tells her that he likes her (his brother had already told him of the director’s weakness for young men), and it does please her, she touches her hand when he leaves.

Alice gets a newfound admiration for Eduard, because word had spread till then that before the committee he had chosen not to denounce God and had defied them openly. This change in attitude irritates him, and he tells her that when he would need support, she won’t be there, and in all probability if the communists run him out of town, she will leave him. This reduces her to tears and using this vulnerable moment he asks her to go to a weekend cottage with him.

On his second visit to the Director’s home, she makes several sexual passes at him, however the director being very ugly, it is hard for Eduard to ‘get it up’. He makes her kneel in front of him and pray, naked. This sight arouses him and he has sex with her.

During the weekend Alice readily gives herself to him, but he is not able to get her aroused, he elicits ‘no moans, no sounds of pleasure’, and the fact that before his so-called-crucification, there was a ‘God Antifornicator’ that did not allow her to do anything, but after it she betrayed this God easily, he felt angry. On their return to the town he broke up with her, citing this.

Later he felt stupid, that he had let such a sexy girl get away. However, he also became a successful skirt chaser himself. He wondered over all the foolishness about God, and in the end he becomes sad that God does not exist, because a lot would make more sense if God existed.