[extropy-chat] toot toot

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Sat Apr 2 05:54:08 UTC 2005


At 09:29 PM 4/1/2005 -0800, spike wrote:


>These are the two chapters in the bible, the lyrical
>King James version that describe the behemoth and the
>leviathan.  What do they sound like to you?
>
>Chapter 40
>
>4 his nose pierceth through snares.

A punk elephant.

>Chapter 41
>
>14 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
>15 His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
>16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
>17 They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be
>sundered.
>18 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of
>the morning.
>19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
>20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
>21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
>22 In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

Obviously one of the steam trains of Atlantis, hence the subsequent water 
imagery.

Damien Broderick 





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