At 12:12 PM 10/11/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>I read and reviewed THE JEHOVAH CONTRACT when it came out about 8 or 10
>>years ago. A brilliant conceit -- a hit man is hired to rub out God -- but
>>having stated it, there's absolutely nothing the author can do with it.
>>It would have been a much better 3,500-worder.
I think Woody Allen did a variation of this conceit as a short story (maybe
a short play) years ago. A hard-boiled detective is hired to find out who
killed God. I forget how it turns out, but I think he winds up questioning
most of the major Western philosophers as suspects. A funny work, mostly
from the blend of Hammet/Chandler and pretty erudite spoofing of philosophy.
It might be in Allen's collection Without Feathers.
Kevin
Kevin P. Mulcahy
Alexander Library
Rutgers University
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