GR 'Streets'

[jbor]

on 16/4/03 1:09 AM, s~Z at keithsz at concentric.net wrote:

> I will respond to the rest of your post later, but in the meanwhile, your
> position initially what that the narrative voice was atheist, and that the
> phrase 'dead now' was synonymous with 'godless, final death' in the chaplain
> paragraph. I disagree with that for reasons explained ad nauseum.

I've never said that the narrative voice is atheist, so I don't know where
you're getting that from. What I did say was that both the tone and the
substance in the chaplains passage rely on a contrast between what the
chaplains preach and what happens to the soldiers. I made the comment that I
thought the paragraph was (partly) about the futility of religious faith.

best

> I agree that the narrative voice in the section as a whole is at odds with
> Christian faith. It compares the attitude of a nuclear cloud with the
> attitude of the Cross. It presents the Virgin, as Western deity, watching a
> city nuked.