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James Morrow, né le 17 mars 1947 à Philadelphie en Pennsylvanie, est un écrivain américain. Son œuvre est non seulement une satire des religions établies mais aussi de l'humanisme et de l'athéisme.

Ainsi, dans son roman En remorquant Jéhovah où le corps de Dieu flotte sans vie dans l'océan, James Morrow se livre à une sévère critique des croyances traditionnelles mais dans le même temps il tourne en ridicule la morale d'un monde post-déiste.

James Morrow plonge souvent son lecteur dans l'embarras : comment peut-on choisir entre un mensonge décérébrant et une réalité pathétique ? Peut-être en apprenant à vivre dans l'incertitude. Wikipedia  

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“Everyone here does think as I do,” replied Nefertiti Jones’s double, “and consequently I have no enemies.”

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James K. Morrow

Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 10 (p. 119)

““Actually, the answer’s quite simple.” Two red eyes floated in the mist.
“Really? Tell me. Why does God allow evil?”
The red eyes vanished, leaving only the lantern and the night. “Because power corrupts,” said Wyvern’s disembodied voice. “And absolute power corrupts absolutely.””

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James K. Morrow livre Only Begotten Daughter

Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 4 (p. 85)

“Sneer, frown, and be miserable, for tomorrow you live.”

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Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 17 (p. 202)

“That maxim, it’s not an argument against atheism—it’s an argument against foxholes.”

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James K. Morrow livre Towing Jehovah

Source: Towing Jehovah (1994), Chapter 8, “Famine” (p. 213)

“Like most visionaries, The Teller saw the distant future with optical-glass clarity, the intermediate future with beeswax clarity, and the immediate future with the clarity of dark glasses dipped in tar.”

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Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 13 (p. 153)

“Under the midnight sun, despair acquires the intensity of sex, insomnia the vehemence of art.”

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James K. Morrow livre Towing Jehovah

Source: Towing Jehovah (1994), Chapter 12, “Father” (p. 337)

““Don’t believe everything you hear about hell. Next time you run into some anti-hell propaganda, consider the source.”
“You inflict eternal punishment on people,” Julie countered.
“Merely because it’s our job. And remember, we persecute only the guilty, which puts us one up on most other institutions.””

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James K. Morrow livre Only Begotten Daughter

Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 9 (p. 162)

“Luli turned out to be uncompromising and brilliant. She could prosecute honey before a jury of bears and win.”

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Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 2 (p. 21)

“You wouldn’t like him. Major fanatic. Confuses migraine headaches with God.”

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James K. Morrow livre Only Begotten Daughter

Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 4 (p. 84)

“As a race of scientists and thinkers,” she concluded, “we cannot claim with absolute certainty that Teot Yon’s personality is now beyond Heaven’s gates or inside Satan’s stewpot or about to enter the embryo of a bull. Some of us subscribe to the Afterworld Hypothesis, some to less cheerful views. We all know that as an empirical event Teot Yon’s existence is over, and it is time for his molecules to become air and ash and after that—where will his drifting pieces go and what new things will they help to form? Let the transformation begin!”

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Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 19 (p. 234)

“There are none so blind as those who see angels…None so deaf as those who hear gods.”

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James K. Morrow livre Only Begotten Daughter

Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 17 (p. 288)

““There’s something else, Beverly. I’m a minister of the Lord. This will be unusual for me, a kind of experiment.”
“I know all about it, Reverend. You folks do more experimenting than Princeton’s entire physics department.””

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James K. Morrow livre Only Begotten Daughter

Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 4 (p. 66)

“It was not a question of regressive old ideas versus enlightened new ideas, but of reasonable caution versus arrogant caprice.”

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Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 4 (p. 46)

“Her libido blazed to life. She smiled, impressed by the party-crashing shamelessness of sex, its willingness to show up anywhere—a funeral, a sermon, a final farewell. This was the way to go out, all right, thumbing your labia at the cosmos.”

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James K. Morrow livre Only Begotten Daughter

Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 17 (p. 285)

“I know the God hypothesis has its partisans, but, oh, what a boring idea. Where did the universe come from? He did it. How do we account for rivers and rocks and ring-tailed lemurs? He made them. Ho-hum.”

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Source: The Philosopher's Apprentice (2008), Chapter 5 (p. 108)

““What’s theodicy?” asked Anthony.
“Hard to explain.”
“Sounds like idiocy.”
“Much of it is.””

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James K. Morrow livre Towing Jehovah

Source: Towing Jehovah (1994), Chapter 2, “Priest” (p. 38)

“It’s an old story, perhaps the oldest on earth,” Joan said. “The sky rumbles, the clouds congeal, the sun spasms. Is that a saint I see on high? An angel? The Lord God Jehovah himself? Now a holy voice booms down, instructing the poor prophet to grab a sword and thrust it into a fellow human, or perhaps a hundred fellow humans, or even a million if the cause is sufficiently sacred. The prophet never talks back. The tradition existed before me. It flourishes to this day. The sword, the blood, the freshly created corpses littering the battlefield, exuding the stink of epiphany.”

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Source: The Philosopher's Apprentice (2008), Chapter 10 (p. 243)

“Francis had always been ecumenical in his atheism. He was as prepared to disbelieve in this Tolca character as he was to disbelieve in Yahweh, Jesus, Buddha, Vishnu, or any of the other words for what his father used to call “forcing yourself to misperceive the obvious.””

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Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 7 (p. 83)

“Hell was not perfect, but it was paradise compared with New Jersey.”

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James K. Morrow livre Only Begotten Daughter

Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 10 (p. 174)

“Say “rationalist” to the average New Age chucklehead, and you conjured up unappetizing images: killjoys obsessed with rules, boors fixated on order, logic-mongers skating around on the surface of things, missing the cosmic essence. Phooey. A rationalist could experience awe as readily as a shaman. But it had to be quality awe, Oliver believed, awe without illusions—the sort of awe he’d felt upon intuiting the size of the universe, or sensing the unlikeliness of his birth.”

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James K. Morrow livre Towing Jehovah

Source: Towing Jehovah (1994), Chapter 5, “Teeth” (p. 109)

““I’m really interested in this stuff.” Julie rubbed a carton labeled ELEMENTARY PARTICLES.
“Physics?”
“Physics, biology, stars, everything.”
Howard said, “Good for you. These days most people prefer to impoverish their minds with mysticism.””

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James K. Morrow livre Only Begotten Daughter

Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 5 (p. 87)

“Now we’re getting somewhere, George told himself, although he sensed that this situation would not endure.”

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Source: This Is the Way the World Ends (1986), Chapter 4, “In Which Our Hero Is Asked to Sign a Most Unusual Sales Contract” (p. 43)

“The Sermon on the Mount—it never ends for you, does it? If somebody kicks your right buttock, turn the other cheek.”

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James K. Morrow livre Only Begotten Daughter

Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 15 (p. 260)

““In fact, there’s probably only one thing worse than not being able to understand a person.”
“What’s that?” asked Nimrod.
“Being able to understand him completely.””

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"Bible Stories for Adults, No. 20: The Tower" p. 76 (originally published in Author’s Choice Monthly #8: Swatting at the Cosmos)
Short fiction, Bible Stories for Adults (1996)

“Let us examine the language here. Evidently God is addressing this code to a patriarchy that will in turn disseminate it among the less powerful, namely wives and servants. And how long before these servants are downgraded further still…into slaves, even? Ten whole commandments, and not one word against slavery, not to mention bigotry, misogyny, or war.”

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"Bible Stories for Adults, No. 31: The Covenant" p. 130 (originally published in What Might Have Been? Volume 1: Alternate Empires, edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg)
Short fiction, Bible Stories for Adults (1996)

“The universe,” says Wyvern, “is a Ph. D. thesis that God was unable to successfully defend.”

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James K. Morrow livre Only Begotten Daughter

Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 13 (p. 221)

“Maybe I’ll end up on the fun side of her pants some day.”

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Source: This Is the Way the World Ends (1986), Chapter 6, “In Which a Sea Captain, a General, a Therapist, and a Man of God Enter the Tale” (p. 66)

“What I love about fiction is the way this form of expression allows an author to wrestle an idea to the ground, as opposed to the bumper-sticker dialectics that pass for political and philosophical discourse in most sectors of our culture. In the age of mass communication, we need the quiet, contemplative and often ambiguous medium of the novel more than ever.”

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Source: The Philosopher's Apprentice (2008), P. S. (p. 13)

“Children, being close to the ground, have a special rapport with insects.”

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Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 2 (p. 17)

“There’s nothing quite so pernicious as wishful thinking.”

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James K. Morrow livre Towing Jehovah

Source: Towing Jehovah (1994), Chapter 11, “War” (p. 285)

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