tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9201119.post3560978628935489661..comments2023-05-12T04:58:53.403-06:00Comments on Cracking My Knuckles in Public: "Nebraska State Senator Sues God"Clumpyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17746334976177130512noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9201119.post-5300485000400083252007-09-27T19:05:00.000-06:002007-09-27T19:05:00.000-06:00It's not original.James Morrow's novel Blameless i...It's not original.<BR/><BR/>James Morrow's novel Blameless in Abaddon is about a man who sues God. Perhaps some of the sting is lost, given that in Towing Jehovah--the first book of Morrow's trilogy--the well-worn phrase "God is dead" is literally true; this book deals with the aftermath of His giant corpse having fallen to earth.<BR/><BR/>I'd strongly recommend any of Morrow's work (sadly consigned to the ghetto of "science fiction" where it doesn't really belong, the same fate the kindred Kurt Vonnegut once suffered).<BR/><BR/>A good starting place would be the horrifying, laugh-out-loud City of Truth. In the title metropolis, no one ever tells even little white<BR/>lies. Everyone has been brutally conditioned to tell the truth, no matter how painful it may be to hear. (The procedure--described in agonizing detail, of course--takes place at a fairly young age, after a brief allowance for fantasy in earlier childhood.)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02020530995583427761noreply@blogger.com