I liked this statement about the Electric Monk:
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He would continue to believe in it whatever the facts turned out to be, what else was the meaning of Belief?
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Which struck me as a definition of religion that boh non-believers and believers could get behind.
I also want to reskim and maybe I'll change my mind, but I thought I'd point out two examples of things that didn't work for me.
I found "The Door was The Way" heavy-handed in itself and the more so because of Gordon Way. And then riffs such as, "It was only his Belief that kept him going, currently his Belief in The Door" seemed overly obvious, especially in the context of, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life." I don't see the point, frankly.
Ultimately, and I need to reread the poems, too, I thought the Coleridge connection was strained and didn't serve much of a purpose. Was it just to set up the joke about the Person from Porlock? The payoff wasn't there.