Heavenly Discourse

by Charles Erskine Scott Wood

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1927. With drawings by Art Young and frontispiece by Hugo Gellert. Charles Erskine Scott Wood led an extraordinary lifelong, varied, and controversial life. Soldier, poet, attorney, satirist, anarchist, bon vivant, painter, and pacifist. Heavenly Discourse, containing his satirical, often hilarious, dialogues, is his best-known work.

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Although theologicvally and politically I might not entirely agree with this series of skits portraying a militant Jehovah, his leftist son Jesus, St. Peter, Satan, etc. I find them wildly funny. The view point is adequately summed up by the title of one scene "Satan bring the United States into the War." Nonetheless, I cannot resist lines like "By myself" (God)"He's a smart devil" or "The stupid shall not enter the kingdom of heaven."
Although some of the sections haven't aged well, others ("Are We Jews?", "Is Jesus a Bastard?") are still very funny. I'd put this next to Langguth's [Jesus Christs]. A collection of conversations between God and His Son on various Earthly matters.

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1927-06

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Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
811.52Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican poetry20th Century1900-1945
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PS3545 .O465 .H4Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1900-1960

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