Dr. Frankenstein creates his creature, who then (in chapter 15) cries out, "Accursed creator: why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?" The people of the flood could have asked their creator the same thing.
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JLS: ---- E. Yost writes of God as a 'literary character' in the book, "TheBible". Don't know.Try _God: a Biography_ by Jack Miles. It won the National Book Award a while back. You might also like _A Literary Guide to the Bible_ by Robert Alter and Frank Kermode. The former, and to a lesser extent the latter, treat God and his variants as an evolving literary character. For example, after that chat with Eve, it took God a long time to be able to talk to women. Eventually, he got over his shyness.------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
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