See now your tinkering craftsmen in their classrooms with their fellows all laboring to produce a perfect product that gives no splinters, chokes no children, abides by various standards set by educated elders who have all the best credentials and have attended all the workshops, eaten the honorary dinners, spoken at the correct conferences, and collected many a check while doing so, and note now their prose so perfectly calibrated to avoid every embarrassment, their themes and identities all arranged and ready for explication and application for awards or grants or teaching positions, their language lyrical and precise or spare and luminous according to preference, their politics perfectly aligning with your own, their plots realistic, absent, or exaggerated as you like, and consider the emptiness that has nonetheless accumulated within you, the lack of feeling from the feeble fruit of all this toil, some spirit having fled the great national LinkedIn Page that has become our literature, and ask yourself what it is we have been missing, to which we answer: begeisterung.
Throw down your tools! Cast off craft and class! Divest yourself of all professional inhibition and accept instead the spirit that says style and energy over everything: beyond respectability or academic analysis, beyond ideas expressible in anything but art itself! No one living can teach the techniques of the forgotten masters! We must descend into the underworld and pour out our tribute of blood to ask them as they lap–or at the very least we must read their works! God is dead and science also! Nothing is left but begeisterung!
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William Tyndale was not strangled at the stake for you to never read the Old Testament.
The King James Bible has been beloved for centuries, a major influence on masters such as Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Cormac McCarthy, but few read it due to its intimidating size and structure.
This volume presents the best of the Old Testament in a format friendly for modern readers without altering the exquisite language of the King James translation.
Chapter and verse numbers have been removed, paragraph breaks re-introduced, poetry formatted as poetry, and new chapter breaks added with descriptive titles so that it reads like a novel.
5.25x8-inch Paperback | 560 pages | $19.95 US