" Stephen King Is Sorry You Feel Like You're Stuck In A Stephen King Novel "

I am not a big fan of horror writer Stephen King . But he is just my age and so many of his stories - with allusions to the 1950s and 1960s and 1970s - hit home with me. What got me through two whole weeks of THE PANDEMIC, April 2020, was reading his horror classic " The Stand ". I had also re-read Albert Camus " The Plague " and " Journal of the Plague Year " by Daniel Defoe . Strange how fiction and horror stories are a better guide to MORAL LIVING than stuffy PSYCHOLOGY OF ADJUSTMENT articles in popular magazines. You can at least ACT as if a GOD ALMIGHTY was going to judge you as GOOD or EVIL ( or just rotten ) in the afterlife. A " leap of FAITH ", the French philosopher Pascal would call it . Excerpt on Pascal [ Pascal concluded that faith is not logical, in much the same way that Kierkegaard concluded that religion was a "leap of faith" requiring pure devotion. ... Paraphrased, Pascal stated that it made more sense to believe in God, in case He existed, than to deny the existence of God and risk the consequences. May 21, 2020] Stephen King Is Sorry You Feel Like You're Stuck In A Stephen King Novel NPR.ORG Stephen King Is Sorry You Feel Like You're Stuck In A Stephen King Novel The horror writer says he understands why fans have said the COVID-