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Sheila Heti

Thresholds

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Mythological Slash Folktale Slash Theology

I wanted to ask you about the theology of this book. This book is so it's sort of mythological slash folktale slash theology. And I was hoping you could tell me a little bit about the influences on that in your thinking and in your writing, in your art. Well, I don't know what the direct influence on this book was because when I was writing this book, I wasn't reading to be influenced. Like, you know, obviously I decided to make the God a he because in the in the Christian and Jewish Bible, it's a key,. So those things I can make and I can draw direct lines from, but I'm not sure what else.

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