Andrew Klavan
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When you look around at it, honestly, right, you can get very depressed. And yet the Bible tells us to rejoice and it tells us, you know, to live in this world in rejoicing. And so my thesis was this.
When you look around at it, honestly, right, you can get very depressed. And yet the Bible tells us to rejoice and it tells us, you know, to live in this world in rejoicing. And so my thesis was this.
When you look around at it, honestly, right, you can get very depressed. And yet the Bible tells us to rejoice and it tells us, you know, to live in this world in rejoicing. And so my thesis was this.
If you can take a murder like the Ed Gein's murder of women in the 1950s in Wisconsin and turn it into a work of art like Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, which is a brilliant, brilliant movie, where is the beauty coming from?
If you can take a murder like the Ed Gein's murder of women in the 1950s in Wisconsin and turn it into a work of art like Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, which is a brilliant, brilliant movie, where is the beauty coming from?
If you can take a murder like the Ed Gein's murder of women in the 1950s in Wisconsin and turn it into a work of art like Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, which is a brilliant, brilliant movie, where is the beauty coming from?
And I just take a look at the way in which creative people transform evil into something beautiful and then ask the question in the second part of the book, how do you do that in your own life? How do you take things in your life
And I just take a look at the way in which creative people transform evil into something beautiful and then ask the question in the second part of the book, how do you do that in your own life? How do you take things in your life
And I just take a look at the way in which creative people transform evil into something beautiful and then ask the question in the second part of the book, how do you do that in your own life? How do you take things in your life
What are the practices that you do, the rituals, the beliefs that you have, the ways you deal with people that transform this kind of dark world into something beautiful so that you can live joyfully? I don't know. I think it's a book that'll actually capture people's imagination because these are movies we all love. I mean, it's Silence of the Lambs. It's based on the Ed Gein murder, the
What are the practices that you do, the rituals, the beliefs that you have, the ways you deal with people that transform this kind of dark world into something beautiful so that you can live joyfully? I don't know. I think it's a book that'll actually capture people's imagination because these are movies we all love. I mean, it's Silence of the Lambs. It's based on the Ed Gein murder, the
What are the practices that you do, the rituals, the beliefs that you have, the ways you deal with people that transform this kind of dark world into something beautiful so that you can live joyfully? I don't know. I think it's a book that'll actually capture people's imagination because these are movies we all love. I mean, it's Silence of the Lambs. It's based on the Ed Gein murder, the
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is based on the Ed Gein murder, all the slasher movies. And all of those movies, a lot of them obviously are junk. But every now and again, you hit one that you think like, oh, wait, this actually understood something about evil that actually makes my life better. So that's basically the way the book works.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is based on the Ed Gein murder, all the slasher movies. And all of those movies, a lot of them obviously are junk. But every now and again, you hit one that you think like, oh, wait, this actually understood something about evil that actually makes my life better. So that's basically the way the book works.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is based on the Ed Gein murder, all the slasher movies. And all of those movies, a lot of them obviously are junk. But every now and again, you hit one that you think like, oh, wait, this actually understood something about evil that actually makes my life better. So that's basically the way the book works.
Well, the interesting thing about Cain is, unlike the other stories, I didn't go directly to works of art about it because it repeats, the story repeats in the Bible, especially the Old Testament, over and over and over again. Every generation has a brother battle in it in which the younger brother, instead of the older brother, kind of wins out.
Well, the interesting thing about Cain is, unlike the other stories, I didn't go directly to works of art about it because it repeats, the story repeats in the Bible, especially the Old Testament, over and over and over again. Every generation has a brother battle in it in which the younger brother, instead of the older brother, kind of wins out.
Well, the interesting thing about Cain is, unlike the other stories, I didn't go directly to works of art about it because it repeats, the story repeats in the Bible, especially the Old Testament, over and over and over again. Every generation has a brother battle in it in which the younger brother, instead of the older brother, kind of wins out.
You know, so you have the younger brothers continually triumphing over older brothers throughout the Old Testament. And I kind of took the murder of Abel by Cain as a trauma that feeds into the chosen people of God and repeats itself to train their hearts to something.
You know, so you have the younger brothers continually triumphing over older brothers throughout the Old Testament. And I kind of took the murder of Abel by Cain as a trauma that feeds into the chosen people of God and repeats itself to train their hearts to something.