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David Given Schwarm (davidschwarm) | 166 comments Mod
1. Attendees
Candace, Steadman, Ronnie, David, Mike, Fred, Marie


2. Status--Godliness & A Man of Ideas

1. Most members completed the reading
2. We continue to be way more focused this time then historically

1. I blame this book --which may be our first 'Big Novel', in some ways

3. Next week we finish the book



3. Review reading

1. Why is it considered a great American book?
2. Pastoral vs. Industrial

1. Spoon River Anthology

3. Beautifully written
4. It is Fiction

1. One can believe anything they want

5. Hands

1. Young children need to have hands on them & be touched...

6. Isolation
7. Lost Generation
8. Industrialization
9. Jesse

1. Success for God

1. Perfect Calvinism

2. Grandson in the woods

1. Abraham / Isaac
2. moves to David / Goliath


10. Eschatological
11. Age of Conspicuous Consumption
12. Life is controlled by misconceptions
13. Joy & Comfort in that that are not comforting
14. That Day & Age

1. She had no choice
2. Is it by choice?
3. Do they recognize that it is a choice

15. Giving Sex to receive Affection
16. Farm does not make money

1. toil every single day

17. Is the order important
18. Who is the narrator

1. Reliable?
2. Omniscient?
3. Something else Marie could not remember

19. We report the big events from peoples lives

1. The big report the big events

20. Input from outside
21. There is never one thing
22. He is telling a story

1. It is only a story

23. He was delusional

1. Saw the light & then went back

24. By all the information you move away from God
25. What is the point?



4. Quotes

1. "Good author, like this guy appears to be, can--well first, let me say that I have not read any of this"
2. It is easy to loose your faith in God when you work for Boeing.
3. "I especially like sleeping with lesbians"
4. "Women's rights are going to cause more loss of jobs"



5. Next Read

1. Not a collection of Short Stories
2. Fantasy


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