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Beginnings, middles and ends cannot embody God, Pemberton claims, because "God is ahistorical. In fact probably God and religion are incompatible propositions." Pemberton asks his new friend, "Do you believe God gave Moses the Decalogue, the Ten Commandments, on Mount Sinai?" Everett replies, "Well it's a great story. I think I'm a judge of stories and that's a great story...
...takes a while for the narrative strategies of City of God to start meshing, but readers willing to be intrigued and patient for about 30 pages will get the hang of things. The entire novel comes from the notebooks of an author called Everett. Although he never reveals his last name, other personal details seep into his story. He is a New Yorker, born in the Bronx during the Depression. He has written for the movies, enjoys women, music and bird watching and keeps up on the latest theories of the cosmologists. After setting down a bravura description...
Casting about for a new novel, Everett is attracted to the incident of the stolen cross and befriends Father Pemberton, who happens to be in the midst of a spiritual crisis. He has lost faith not in God but rather in the fictions that humans have spun around him. "The biblical stories," he says, "the Gospel stories, were the original understandings, they were science and religion, they were everything, they were all anyone had. But they didn't write themselves. We have to acknowledge the storytellers' work...
Professor of History of Science Everett Mendelsohn, the main speaker, elaborated on the general principles Kirchhoff laid...
Professor Everett I. Mendelsohn, who taught Historical A-18, "Science and Society in the 20th Century," told The Crimson last spring that he spends time before every lecture preparing to give a first class show...