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{
Towing Jehovah
|
Blameless in Abaddon
|
The Eternal Footman
}
By
James Morrow
, a trilogy of speculative novels centering on the literal bodily death of the
Godhead
of
Judeo-Christian
theology.
Jehovah
. The
Prime Mover
.
Creator
and
Judge
of the world.
I had the good fortune of attending a presentation ("
Stop Me Before I Kill God Again
") by the author himself at
Philly Phrolics
, where he likened the creative process of writing fiction to Einstein's
gedanken experiment
- you have some
hypothetical
initial conditions
(God exists, and He is recently deceased), and an idea of how things behave in your
theoretical model
(the
Corpus Dei
decays like any other meat; much of
Western civilization
has staked its faith on God's
eternal
nature), and you set it in motion and watch for "
unexpected inevitabilities
" to shake out. His thesis:
Fiction
is interesting because of the way that an unfolding narrative reveals events at once
surprising
and
necessary
. It appeals simultaneously to our needs for
pattern
(necessary, inevitable conclusions) and novelty (surprising, unpredictable... "
novel
"). To Morrow, writing is all about
dispensing revelations
in a way that keeps the reader hungry for more.
The Christ Clone Trilogy
Towing Jehovah
Blameless in Abaddon
The Eternal Footman
James Morrow
Corpus Dei
Only Begotten Daughter
The Weddings I have Performed, or Why God is Gonna Kill Me
Gedanken Experiment
Philly Phrolics
Genuflection
The Funeral of God
USS Rentz
Enki Bilal
Abbadon
Dutch Schultz
There are no atheists in the foxholes
Deicide
uplift
University of Chicago