More Notes from the Autopsy of God: The Thing That Killed God

Saturday, 28 January 2012

The Thing That Killed God

What killed God? A tautology? A single moment of blistering clarity? Determinism? Nothing at all? The birth of something else? Or was it simply when the metaphysicians could no longer be bothered to inflate him with their spiteful breath?

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Anonymous29 January 2012 at 13:35
The moment of creation - the big bang, if you like - was the destruction of 'god'.
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La Bete Noire16 February 2012 at 14:13
moments of clarity. My faith crumbled under criticism.
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Unknown22 April 2012 at 11:03
Died shortly after Santa Claus. Didn't make sense with what I knew even as a child about biology, evolution, and the universe.
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'Scepticism Inc. is a venomously intelligent and funny novel with a richly European combination of whimsy and seriousness... this book's rare pleasure is that, as well as numerous running gags, it boasts a wealth of conceptual and structural jokes.'

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My writing, I am sometimes told, is reminiscent of the late great Kurt Vonnegut. This should come as no shock since it was Vonnegut who inspired me to become a writer. I found a battered old copy of Slapstick, or Lonesome No More in my year off before college in a second hand book shop in the back streets of Katmandu…as you do.

Another important influence on my work is the also late and also great Richard Brautigan. Brautigan’s writing never ceases to amaze me; even though I have read his work many times, (and read him often to my students) his casual inventive turn of phrase - his sheer audacity with the written word still leaves me breathless.

A reviewer once said of some of my short stories that they were ‘brazenly inconsequential’ I loved the phrase because it reminded me of Brautigan’s work.

The ebook cover of Scepticism inc. is a homage to Brautigan (have a look at the cover of Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Wont Blow It All Away).

Philosophically I would describe myself as an optimistic nihilist or a jaded humanist. Nietzsche is my philosophical idol and my collection of Aphorisms, Notes From The Autopsy of God, which I have been tweeting recently, is very Nietzschian in style. (Even if I do say so myself.)

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