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		<title>I&#8217;ve moved to www.nehemiahblake.co.uk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Wasserfall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have now relocated the Nehemiah Blake blog to it&#8217;s own domain: www.nehemiahblake.co.uk.  For the time being, this blog will remain online as an archive.  I look forward to having you join me at the new site.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nehemiahblake.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6575212&amp;post=784&amp;subd=nehemiahblake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is it to be prophetic in England today?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Wasserfall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is it to be prophetic in England today? It is to the ability to imagine a future that is radically better than the present. The radio journalist said, &#8220;This is the UK&#8217;s third great crisis of trust.&#8221; First it was the banks. Then it was the politicians. Now it is the media. But the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nehemiahblake.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6575212&amp;post=769&amp;subd=nehemiahblake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How quoting Musil exposes Cameron</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Wasserfall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The quote below is taken from the chapter &#8220;Culture and Capital&#8221; in Robert Musil&#8217;s The Man Without Qualities.  I find it worth quoting because it contains within it the critical part of the prophetic imagination that establishes the paradigm in which the consciousness of power works. Musil may be writing about an imperial Austria on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nehemiahblake.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6575212&amp;post=752&amp;subd=nehemiahblake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing prophetic imagination to the novel</title>
		<link>http://nehemiahblake.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/bringing-prophetic-imagination-to-the-novel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Wasserfall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ruminations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Jerusalem]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently changed the tagline of this blog from &#8220;Pursuing a theology of the novel&#8221; to &#8220;Bringing prophetic imagination to the novel&#8221;.  This is in part because I&#8217;ve discovered what I was pursuing. The theology I was looking for in the novel was a theology of prophetic utterance. Having found that this is what I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nehemiahblake.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6575212&amp;post=740&amp;subd=nehemiahblake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A call for novels of absurd prophetic impulse</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Wasserfall</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Foster Wallace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Foster Wallace spoke in an interview with Ostap Karmodi (recently translated from the Russian) of the “moral obligation … to develop compassion and mercy and empathy” through writing that would counter &#8220;a very aggressive capitalism and consumerism&#8221; that is swamping the moral attitude of America. He also noted that writers in America &#8220;are much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nehemiahblake.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6575212&amp;post=729&amp;subd=nehemiahblake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Not I&#8217; but you O Lord: Beckett &amp; The Bible</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Wasserfall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The quote below comes from Gabriel Josipovici&#8217;s The Book of God. I quote it because it confirms to me an idea that has been growing in my head of late: that the work of Beckett and the like, in which there is expressed that there is nothing to be said, has the same ground of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nehemiahblake.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6575212&amp;post=733&amp;subd=nehemiahblake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back in 1967: Literature in the Divinity School</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 21:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Wasserfall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literary tomato feed]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Time Magazine, 22 Dec 1967: &#8220;Is William Faulkner&#8217;s The Sound and the Fury a religious novel? Faulkner himself was a somewhat cynical agnostic, and few readers would find much spiritual comfort in his dour chronicle of the Compson family. But to Professor Nathan Scott of the University of Chicago Divinity School, the answer is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nehemiahblake.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6575212&amp;post=723&amp;subd=nehemiahblake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading quarters: Bradbury,Vila-Matas, Kafka, Bolaño</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 20:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Wasserfall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The four books below were my first quarter&#8217;s reading (though I only finished them in April). What&#8217;s below are less reviews and more riff responses to them. Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury I found it quite interesting, given my own pursuit of the theology of the novel that Bradbury should have rise up in Guy Montag [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nehemiahblake.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6575212&amp;post=709&amp;subd=nehemiahblake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Lector, Letter No. 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 13:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Wasserfall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[C.S. Lewis at his desk; image from kenwytsma.com Dear Lector, It has been a long time since I wrote, but that does not mean I have not been giving much thought about what it is I want to say to you.  During a recent holiday, I picked up a copy of A.N. Wilson&#8217;s biography of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nehemiahblake.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6575212&amp;post=705&amp;subd=nehemiahblake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kafka&#8217;s door-keeper: an excerpt from The Trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 12:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Wasserfall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This passage from Kafka&#8217; The Trial where the priest discusses this particular interpretation of the gatekeeper with K. reflects quite a bit of what is going on between Nehemiah Blake and his angel guide in The Dream Vision of Nehemiah Blake. My point of comparison is this verse from 1 Peter 1:12: &#8220;It was revealed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nehemiahblake.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6575212&amp;post=701&amp;subd=nehemiahblake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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