Lulu Marketplace

A substantial collection of short prose (stories) with a markedly philosophical bias that follows on from 'A Visit to Hell' (1979) and signifies a rejection of the kind of Spenglerian pessimism that figured prominently in the latter volume. Here things open-out towards a future in which God or godliness (to distance the term from the various 'thingfulnesses' owing more to the concretions of the female side of life than to anything abstractly male) is the evolutionary outcome. Hence the title 'From the Devil to God', with implications that contrast the alpha-most of things with the omega-most or, at any rate, with what would be nearest to such an eventuality in conjunction with the actual omega of Heaven, the soulful fulcrum of the metaphysical context in which ego is 'once bovaryized' (compared to its physical per se) and therefore the super-conscious concomitant of super-psychic soul. However, the first piece in this collection is rather more alpha-stemming in its paradoxical accommodation of the flesh.