From: Xela@yabbs
To: Natalie@yabbs
Subject: re: Burn Lib, Burn
Date: Wed Jun 15 15:40:57 1994

"things may not have happened exactly how homer says they did...and lots 
of writers extrapolate on historical fact to create something different."

A neurobiologist called William Cavin hlds in his book "The Ascent of 
Mind" that elements in the Bible may be directly attributable
to meteorological events, including a drought which occured after "the 
Garden of Eden" took place (temporally speaking).  He speculates that 
mythologists at the time took the contrast of a lust, vegetated paradise 
(Eden) to the desert wasteland (outside) which resulted from a drought and 
destroyed the vegetation.  It was put into storybook form, the Bible, and 
became a "bestseller."

Art often imitates life; in fact, isn't that its purpose?

X