"to illsell my fourth part in her, which although allowed of in Deuterogamy as in several places of Scripture (copyright) and excluded books (they should quite rightly overmanned be, would seem eggseggs excessively haroween to my feelimbs for two punt scotch, one pollard and a crockery or three pipples on the bitch"
James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
Torah: the first five books of the Tanach; derived from the root ירה, which in the hif'il conjugation means "to guide"
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Book 1: Genesis
Don't mistake your mistake for my mistake.
Book 2: Exodus
I can't believe that you're still working the line
(I'm so glad that I'm not).
(I'm so glad that I'm not).
Book 3: Leviticus
Please don't misuse this information now.
Book 4: Numbers
We've lost our souls, there will be no returning.
Book 5: Deuteronomy
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| Moses On A Bench |
A traveler's diagram for where I am,
for what I am.
Commentary: Genesis:
Big Daddy and the Devil; Exodus: into the desert (sandbox); Leviticus:
self imposed laws and regulations designed to return to a higher
plane (aerial nostalgia); Numbers: wander the desert for forty years
and die (when the big door swings open and shuts); Deuteronomy: King Shit gives his
final sermon, somewhere outside the Promised Land, knowing he shall not enter.
Or something like that.......