We have read with particular repugnance the record of the alleged god Zeus, whose habit it was to assume the shape of swans, bulls, and other animals, and, thus disguised, to force his attentions upon defenceless females of good character.
(Somerset Maugham ‘A Writer’s Notebook’)
How odd
Of God
To choose
The Jews (William Norman Ewer ‘Week-End Book’)
But not so odd
As those who choose
A Jewish God,
But spurn the Jews. (Cecil Browne – reply to Ewer)
The lifelong trust he had placed in the wisdom and justice of an immortal, omnipotent, omniscient, humane, universal, anthropomorphic, English-speaking, Anglo-Saxon, pro-American God … had begun to waver.
(Joseph Heller ‘Catch-22’)
RAJA ARASA RATNAM 