Vol 5, Num 18 :: 2006.10.06 — 2006.10.20
Did he mean finished, as in done, as in
Completely completed? In the way his
Father meant it is good after that amaz-
ing quick-told act of creation followed by
his catch-our-breaths rest? Was the plan that the
next three days were a celebratory cruise
through the land of death, re-collecting the
holy, those to rise with him on Sunday?
Did he maybe mean there was no turning
back from it, that he was about to plunge
into the dangerous journey into
the underworld like the best of the best
of epic heroes, that after all that
agony, there was no turning back? Hard
to know what it was. But it’s clear that his
followers seemed lost and bereft of lit-
erary imagination. They were
from a hick province, so they wouldn’t know
that like the tourist, the hero always comes back
with guns (or eyes) blazing to conquer
with a thunderous breakfast on the beach.
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