Just getting going this evening on an essay about faith and how destructive it is to the human condition. The stimulus for this came, I think, from reading East of Eden, and in particular some of Steinbeck’s more trenchant philosophical musings that are scattered throughout the novel. It is an excellent story so far, and I am particularly taken by the pure evil that is the Cathy character. She and Dominique from The Fountainhead would make an interesting pair.