The Akedah, from R. Crumb's 'Genesis'
There are so many transgressions available out there in the world for which we may indict "Western" culture. But here's one we don't think about much or at least I never heard it uttered by any scholar of Biblical literature.
In a note from Nietzche and Philosophy, Gilles Deleuze quotes this passage from Beyond Good and Evil:
"the taste for the Old Testament is a touchstone in regard to 'great' and 'small'... To have glued this New Testament, a species of rococo taste in every respect, on to the Old Testament to form a single book, as 'Bible,' as the 'Book of Books': that is perhaps the greatest piece of temerity and 'sin against the spirit' that literary Europe has on its conscience."
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Saul,
You are right. Critics like to call a novel Dickensian, but none of them have read Dickens. Dickens is the best but the novelists compared to him are a bunch of putzes. Dickens is the old testament, the new testament is a lot less.
Regards,
Dad of Ben
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