“I live, yet not I, but Christ in me.” Or perhaps it might be more accurate to use the verb transitively and say, “I live, yet not I; for it is the Logos who lives me”—lives me as an actor lives his part. In such a case, of course, the actor is always infinitely superior to the rôle. Where real life is concerned, there are no Shakespearean characters, there are only Addisonian Catos or, more often, grotesque Monsieur Perrichons and Charlie’s Aunts mistaking themselves for Julius Caesar or the Prince of Denmark. But by a merciful dispensation it is always in the power of every dramatis persona
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