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February 23, 2000
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Author to Speak at UW-Waukesha
| WAUKESHA - Writer James Morrow will give a public lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha on Tuesday, February 29. His plea is “Stop me before I kill God again!” and he’ll be speaking at 7:00 p.m. in Northview Hall, Room 055. The presentation is open to the public at no charge. UW-Waukesha is located at 1500 N. University Dr., Waukesha, about a 1½ miles south of I-94 (Exit 293) and just west of Grandview Avenue (Hwy. T).
The science fiction writer who completed his “godhead trilogy” with the publication of The Eternal Footman in November will discuss why he placed the Corpus Dei, the dead Supreme Being of Nietzschean speculation, at the heart of three different, satiric novels. In composing the godhead trilogy, Morrow says, he was “never quite certain how the characters would react to God’s death from moment to moment,” whether they were burying the Corpus Dei (Towing Jehovah), putting it on trial for acquiescence to human suffering (Blameless in Abaddon), or attempting to construct a “post-theistic future” (The Eternal Footman).After the lecture, Morrow will field questions from the audience.
The appearance of the writer from Pennsylvania is sponsored by the UW-Waukesha Department of Philosophy and the campus chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, the national honor society for two-year colleges.
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