the story of the flood in Gilgamesh from my studies at the seminary and I watch the Israelites revise it, populating the ark not with a royal court but a single family, of which every soul born since is a member, every saint and drunkard, every hermit, cutpurse, prostitute, factory owner, railroad baron. Every deadbeat mule driver is your father, your brother, every wayward milkmaid your aunt, your sister. Not a hero and his entourage aloft on the waters. Not a king and his court.
the story of the flood in Gilgamesh from my studies at the seminary and I watch the Israelites revise it, populating the ark not with a royal court but a single family, of which every soul born since is a member, every saint and drunkard, every hermit, cutpurse, prostitute, factory owner, railroad baron. Every deadbeat mule driver is your father, your brother, every wayward milkmaid your aunt, your sister. Not a hero and his entourage aloft on the waters. Not a king and his court.
