[lbo-talk] Re: nailing the holy ghost

C. G. Estabrook galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
Wed Jan 12 12:44:55 PST 2005


Sounds like an Eddie Izzard routine. --CGE

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:


> ...job's god isn't the sort of god who bothers with a holy ghost,
> afaict. i mean, come on: he has the "satan" (which clearly is not yet
> the devil of later judaism and christianity) doing his work. if that's
> his "pr", he's clearly not concerned with pr as we understand it. but
> that, of course, is what's interesting about the god of job.
>
> i don't think he's either beer-swilling or ass-scratching, but he's
> certainly very warrior-macho. and if it's true that he's got no tact,
> it's only because, well, i mean, he's f****ing god, after all. why the
> f*** does he *need* tact?
>



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