With essays like this, it remains remarkable that this individual (or any individual who writes like this) is also enduring chemo therapy for stage 4 cancer.
Hitchens on the King James version: A culture that does not possess this common store of image and allegory will be a perilously thin one.
I'm making it a point to read Ecclesiastes, the King James version at least (after I clear a couple of these seminar research papers off my desk). It's touted as the most philosophical component of the bible, and is heavy and confusing medicine for the Assembly of God'ers who get in your face about straight biblical literalism. It's also heavy medicine for any rage-against-the-bible political liberal or social democrat who gets in your face about how the bible hasn't anything to contribute to humanity anymore. See how it cuts both ways? I love shit like that.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
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Not just Ecclesiastes:
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
A wife's Job:
"Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die."
Did your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth again AA?
Goddam, I hate it when that happens during a friggin attack of running blisters.
Heh...
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