and it gives amazing insight into a tremendous stretch of continuity in the history and society of an ethnic/religious/regional group –
– but noooo, it has to be the actual word of actual God, undiluted, and somehow miraculously surviving intact through however many translations and transcriptions.
... is what I meant to say, but the sentence had gone on too long and I lost the thread of it.
(It is Friday and I have had end-of-production champagne, before going back to work on said production.)
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Date: 2012-02-04 12:55 am (UTC)– but noooo, it has to be the actual word of actual God, undiluted, and somehow miraculously surviving intact through however many translations and transcriptions.
... is what I meant to say, but the sentence had gone on too long and I lost the thread of it.
(It is Friday and I have had end-of-production champagne, before going back to work on said production.)