I don’t understand why things like this happen, but I feel a lump in my throat right now for this poor guy:
Sheriff’s deputy Andy McDowell was forced to live a parent’s worst nightmare twice in a matter of minutes.
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Rory McDowell, 23, and Cory McDowell, 21, both died within a couple of miles from the home they shared with their father in southern Kentucky’s rural Warren County.
[. . .]
Rory McDowell lost control of his pickup truck coming out of a curve and the vehicle struck a tree shortly before 1:30 a.m., authorities said.
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About 15 minutes after the first crash, Cory McDowell’s 1984 Porsche veered off another rural road, went into a spin, struck a tree and burst into flames, authorities said.
Two sons. All of his children. Gone in a matter of minutes in SEPARATE tragedies. Almost like Job. Sad.
What a terrible story. I’m right in the middle of reading Job — the novel by Joseph Roth. No one does melancholy better. But sometimes real life puts literature far into the background.
Good Job commentary in relationship to the Jewish holocaust found in War and Remembrance, pages 802-805 (good luck trying to read the whole selection in “Google Books”).
http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=w1EZUykUOuMC&pg=PA802&lpg=PA802&dq=%22war+and+remembrance%22+job&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Fq%3D%2522war%2Band%2Bremembrance%2522%2Bjob&sig=HAQnEzqeoqClcQ48rOjIetI-kSI
http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=w1EZUykUOuMC&pg=PA805&lpg=PA805&dq=%22if+there+is+one%22&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Fq%3D%2522war%2Band%2Bremembrance%2522%2Bjob&sig=jLoeMSb_maB29CcyCxnOL-PgbuU
Mark:
Thanks for reminding me of that section in War and Remembrance.
Jordan, to paraphrase Dov-Ber Kerler, aren’t you going a little far by assuming that Job actually existed? If assuming Abraham’s existence was a stretch for your supervisors at Oxford, then I’m sure they would be aghast at a statement by you that would seem to assume the existence of Job, where the evidence is much more compelling that the book is fictional.
That’s a good point, John. In that case, assuming that Dov-Ber reads this blog, it should be entitled “Modern-day allegorical Job?”
yes.
Last year sometime danithew pointed out a blog called Dov-Ber. Do you think it is run by him?