Judgment Day for our Naive Hero . . .
Judgment Day
The Bottomless Bottle of Beer
Terrance Lindall
Terrance Lindall has all but finished the illustrations to go with my story, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, for you see the panoramic courtroom scene above in which the articulate Beelzebub is making his point on the sanctity of law:
What, then, is law? It is the most basic foundation upon which is established the universal order of all things. Natural philosophers refer to laws of nature, moral philosophers to moral law, legal philosophers to human law, and each category of law stands worthy of reverence. Respect for the laws of nature serves as paradigm for respect towards other laws. Consider the heavens, which bow in reverence to the laws dictating the orderly motions that we discover above. Imagine the disorder were the heavenly bodies to flout their laws. No, rather, such chaos is unimaginable.Beelzebub is partly lying, of course, for he and Satan's other minions rebelled against God's laws, as described in Milton's Paradise Lost, and the heavens no longer obey the original laws, for the planets themselves follow their erratic paths, from which they derive their name: "planets."
The astute reader will catch these points without their being pointed out, but despite his lies, Beelzebub speaks enough of the truth to sound persuasive, thereby giving our naive hero the legal sweats . . .
Labels: John Milton, Religion
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 6:43 AM
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13 Comments:
"...and the heavens no longer obey the original laws, for the planets themselves follow their erratic paths..."
And then along came Kepler and Kepler's Law. We're saved!
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night. God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.
Except for those heavy objects that proved for Newton the law of inverse squares . . .
Jeffery Hodges
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Notice on the floor Emanations in flames!
We are in flaming text and "Satan gave color to the world!"
+Bones+
Notice me quotes Banez's painting flames too!
*Bones*
That book is emanating flames!
Jeffery Hodges
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Bones, "each man's work will become manifest; for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done . . ."
I see that your words are not being consumed by the flames.
Jeffery Hodges
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Curiouser and curiouser!
Until only a curious smile remained . . .
Jeffery Hodges
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Let see the time... who will be manifest with fire into flaming vanities world 666! Once every smile is flattering world and words...
Yes! but my visual:painting/Sculpture & drawing
are Flamings rather than words! but our visual are universal language!
well I appreciate your words power!
*Bones*
Your art speaks with tongues of fire.
Jeffery Hodges
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Thanks! we are one world... through the fire and flames!
*Bones*
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