tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931579729864611467.post6646189394664572919..comments2023-10-31T05:37:16.659-07:00Comments on A Guy in the Pew: Ian McEwan on the Day of JudgmentChuck Blanchardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01417638725063186710noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931579729864611467.post-5625234884511735992008-06-01T13:53:00.000-07:002008-06-01T13:53:00.000-07:00I think one thing McEwan misses is the historical ...I think one thing McEwan misses is the historical contingency of apocalypic visions. They are rarely about the future, and more about the promulgation of present anxieties into the future. Interesting post-modern take on Revelation is "Apocalypse of Jude" - www.aofj.info - a fiction that mixes Jude, Revelation with T.S. Eliot's Wasteland.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931579729864611467.post-66213883518188854042008-05-31T11:50:00.000-07:002008-05-31T11:50:00.000-07:00"there will be no one to save us but ourselves."Th..."there will be no one to save us but ourselves."<BR/><BR/>Then we're in real trouble.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com