[lit-ideas] Re: Adam's Spare-Rib and The Fall from Eden
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:08:11 -0700
On Oct 23, 2007, at 11:00 PM, Mike Geary wrote:
I'm a realist. A Mexican, yes, a Vietnamese, of course, maybe
even a Romanian, but a woman??? Women WANT help, for Christ's
sake. Maybe those chroniclers got it all wrong. Maybe the first
man was a WOMAN. And God quickly saw she didn't know which end of
the hammer to hold so he ripped a rib and created MAN, the drywall
hanger. This narrative makes a hell of a lot more sense to me. I
don't know ancient Hebrew, but I'll bet if the scholars dare go
back far enough they see that what we now call "woman" was created
first.
:)
This is the end
he's run from the land
and beauty is saved
by a valorous band
The POGO Stepmother Goose.
David Ritchie, no relation to Precious Ramotswe but still
wondering about the moon and late cows in
Portland, Oregon
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