Maggie's Farm

So God stopped this very good writer from killing his wife(?) and later himself. I mean, it's very thought provoking and insightful in its own way but I find it extremely exploitative. Apparently from the writer's story, there were no innocent third parties involved. I have the obvious question. Where was God for the California family? Three totally innocent children, ages 14, 10, and 8 murdered by their father. Or did God put them there to be murdered by the one who should love them most in order to provide grist for a writer possessing maybe just a little more cowardice than enough anger and evil to follow through on his thoughts? Is that what "Grace" is? To me "Grace" would have this story turned upside down. After all the father who killed his family was himself an investigator. Couldn't we have all learned more if the writer had performed the murder-suicide and the investigator learned from and written about the experience?

Mebbe if ahmeddinnerjihad could write this good...besides, I think you're confusing redundancy with irony...which happens a lot these days.