{"product_id":"thermonuclear-mirth-9781990685460","title":"Thermonuclear Mirth","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book will help you understand that, yes, you can study dog poetry, become the Minnesota Twins closer, run for president of the United States, become a Franciscan friar in Albuquerque, put oranges in a circle, teach courses in conflicting political theory at the University of Idaho, attend Mass literally underground in a subterranean cathedral hundreds of feet below the desert floor, play no pads tackle football on Boise State's blue turf, write tracts while sunbathing at the top of Namur's castle in summertime, discuss constitutional originalism while getting a back rub, and fight a lot, I mean tons, tons see: a cornucopia, no, a plethora, nay, an overabundance, of bad, super, super bad guys bent on well...yes, the, yeah, the standard take over the world and rule everyone thing, you know, that, but, wait, but this time: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enuclear weapons are not subtexted background chatter but out in the open\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e and this time: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyou get to travel to Illinois, Italy, and Iceland's Blue Lagoon in one footnote\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e and this time: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe main love story isn't some stock photo, twenty something couple in a penny dreadful Saturday afternoon movie you watch with a lukewarm latte on a well-worn couch in Lower Manhattan your spirits lower than the elevation itself. No, here it's a 60-something power couple, she extreme left, he extreme right, they, together, perhaps more explosive than the bombs themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This book will help you understand that you can do, or, at least \u003cem\u003etry \u003c\/em\u003eto do, or, failing that, with one-hundred percent certitude, \u003cem\u003eread about\u003c\/em\u003e others doing these things. You have free will, do you understand that? Of course, this also means that it is your fault. Don't add to your long list of mistakes by missing this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e For \u003cem\u003eThermonuclear Mirth \u003c\/em\u003eis unique on the fiction landscape, Catholic and otherwise, today. In an age where \"fiction\" invariably means dragons, knights, ladies and endless webs of fantastical fakeries, one will not find a single example of such things in this book. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThermonuclear Mirth \u003c\/em\u003eis a wholly fictional book of real life in the future, a future as it might become, not as it can never be, with a persistent question of what can be done in response, by applying eternal truths, running from cover to cover.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The book is at times sincere, at times absurd, at times extremely absurd; it will make you cry, laugh until you cry, inspire you to learn at least one foreign language, and make you feel guilty, and ashamed, if you cannot do ten pull-ups, jump up and touch 9 feet, and run a respectable mile; \u003cem\u003eit is at times profane, vulgar, and base, but, unlike scores of books for whom those markers are the goal as well, here such things are only present so as to show the horrid reality of sin so as to lead readers to a clearer, and long lasting, appreciation of the narrow path towards the Good, the True, the Beautiful.\u003c\/em\u003e The \"reality of sin;\" so too the reality of beer, politics at Thanksgiving dinner, Rottweilers, Lake Zurich, Rhode Island Red Hens, ad infinitum. This because \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThermonuclear Mirth \u003c\/em\u003eis a book about real life; the messiness of it, yes, down to the very bottom of the well; but the hope, rather the surety, of solutions to the messiness and a path to authentic happiness. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arouca Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/26\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781990685460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 900\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 2.00d","brand":"Gracjan Kraszewski","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52933549392053,"sku":"9781990685460","price":36.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/thermonuclear-mirth-9781990685460","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}