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Table of Contents
Chapter I The Mental Prison Break ................................ 1 VP sport mom phenoms ............................................................................. 9 Bleeding hearts coagulate...........................................................................11 Nietzscheans for Jesus...............................................................................13 Dutiful duty avoidance..............................................................................15 God’s shifting shadow ...............................................................................18 A thought murder a day keeps ... ............................................................ 20 Sparks in the Dark Ages.........................................................................21
Chapter II Meaning-Making Maestros ........................... 27 Dodging mental lobotomies........................................................................32
Chapter III The God-shaped hole in the soul................. 45 Ball falls in hole ... Hooray!....................................................................55 Skeptical of skepticism.............................................................................60 James Taylor’s Fire and Pain ...................................................................62
The Quiet Desperation of Noisy Affirmation..........................................66
The American dreamscape.......................................................................68 Nietzsche the monster...............................................................................71 Ad nauseam ad infinitum.......................................................................76
Chapter IV The Vonnegut-Groucho Smackdown .......... 83 The humor-tragedy strategy .......................................................................86 Sacred hee haws........................................................................................90
Chapter IV Expectorating Expectations ........................ 99 Extreme soul makeovers.........................................................................102 Great expectations..................................................................................107 Mundane miracles ..................................................................................109
Chapter VI Return to Void City ...................................... 113 The elation of depression ........................................................................115
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