<I don't remember anything "staggering" about it.

Muse,

To be honest, I'm the only person I know who did, and I'm not suggesting you take the time to read it again. The importance of the novel is what has to do with the protagonists[/narrator's--I may have conflated this book and Singer's memoirs on this point] surviving the war in a box or an attic. That is, in isolation from the conflict, and the insista=ence with which he and his peers pray to a God they do not--will not--believe in *and who wreaks holocaust: the God whose creation emerges from His self-creation in the cataclysmic act of anihilation. The people of the holocaust, which, I am sure Singer would extend to all humanity, are in that respect children of their own destruction. By extrapolation, man's redemption is in willing the destruction of the God who wills destruction. Who is, in His very essence, destruction. And the tragedy of that redemption is that in willing His destruction, we will him into being. This is the theological equivalent of what I take to be the concentration of Being in the diversity of substance in Aristotle's Metaphysics. But, I can assure you, if I dropped that line at an academic symposium, I would receive the one word rejoinder, "WHAT?!"

I do, however, recommend you read/see the others.

Note: please forgive punctuation, etc.