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...Seltzer is contemplating an offer to assume a post at Harvard University, having achieved unexpected fame with his book, “The Varieties of Religious Illusion.” The combination of this secularist tract—and its appendix refuting 36 arguments for God’s existence??with Cass’s clear-eyed empathy for religious belief has turned him into an overnight celebrity, dubbed by Time Magazine as “the atheist with a soul...
Savage ultimately concluded from his efforts to understand the purposes of prayer and organized religion that man does not “need religion in order to appreciate [one’s] existence?? and instead should rely on his own observations and logic...
...Zane may not be the most common name in existence??according to babynamewizard.com, it has never been in the top 1,000 names for girls—but it doesn’t sound like a celebrity construct, like Apple Martin or Prince Michael II, a.k.a. Blanket. In Arabic, Zane means “beloved.” In Hebrew, it’s “gift from God.” The English language seems to think it’s a variant on “John.” And everyone?...
...trick of opening her mouth when toweling her inguen or of closing her eyes when smelling an inodorous rose are absolutely true to the original.” The second, more sketchily outlined half segues into Philip’s quasi-sexual attempts to will himself out of existence??for the “process of dying by auto-dissolution afforded the greatest ecstasy known to man.” It’s not clear how the parts were meant to be linked, though early on Flora does refer to the “mad neurologist?...
...across an ark / as lucid underwater scent.” Thus begins “The Bedouin Ark,” the opening poem in Will Alexander’s new collection of poetic monologues. It is not a propitious start: the combined effect of “de-existence?? and “post-exist” in this context is one of self-conscious jargonizing. “Ark” is one of five shorter poems that serve in this context as an introduction to the title poem, which at some 70 pages could...