Trial summer project short story: Easter Sunday

Marc Aramini · 25 Mar 2012, 17:56 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:56:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Trial summer project short story: Easter Sunday
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I agree - there is a certain parallel between their self-involvement - while the devil does not seem truly evil, DOBSON can't recognize the devil because he is so wrapped up in banal thoughts (can he recognize evil at all?), though the title is Easter Sunday - the triumph of Christ over death and sin for those who accept him.

--- On Sun, 3/25/12, Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: (urth) Trial summer project short story: Easter Sunday
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Sunday, March 25, 2012, 10:22 AM
> We also can't forget, of course, that
> the Church of the Subgenius worships Bob Dobson.
> 
> What strikes me, though, is how toothless the devil is. He
> just reinforces Dobson's self involvement and seems entirely
> self-involved himself. He's afraid of the Easter bells and
> seems just as tellingly to misrecognize what is like him in
> Dobson. If there is something "Wolfean" about this, it's
> that the surface story isn't much of a story...the drama
> already happened (for the devil) and is ongoing in the
> implications for Dobson's soul/life/whatever.
> 
>

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