06.09Write this down; I forgot to say this in the Bible.
Good ol’ Don Miller has posted an uncorrected proof of the first 3 chapters of his new book here. These are my two favorite paragraphs:
As a writer of nonfiction I’m supposed to know what life is about, but to be
honest, I don’t. I write books about faith, which only makes the job harder. When you
write books about faith, people read them and expect to hear from God, as though God
calls me on the phone in the morning and says, Write this down; I forgot to say this in the
Bible. I know writers who actually approach their books this way, but none of them has
given God my phone number.
…..
I’m sounding fatalistic.
This isn’t the sort of thing you wanted to read about, I would imagine. Fatalism
and the fact we might just be animals. And I hate saying all this in writing because being
a fatalist and a writer rarely works out. Nietzsche did it with some success, but he is one
of the few. He didn’t have personal success, mind you, because he was a puny loser. But
he is huge with twenty-something intellectuals. He’s the Justin Timberlake of depressed
Germans. And there are a lot of depressed Germans.
It’s been a while since I’ve read Don Miller’s books so I’m still readjusting to the way he writes. Seems pretty good so far though.
- sean
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