The Jesus Incident

Inflection is the adjective of language. It carries the subtleties of delight and horror, the essence of culture and social process.

Myths are not fiction, but history seen with a poet's eyes and recounted in a poet's terms.

A good bureaucracy is the best tool of oppression ever invented.

Hittite law emphasized restitution rather than revenge. Humankind lost a certain useful practicality when it chose the other Semitic response—never to forgive and never to forget.

The mystery of consciousness? Erroneous data—significant results.

Ignoring that which is false is also a knowing. Thus—learning. To learn is to grow and to grow is to live. You may practice forgetting and thus learn.

Even the seemingly immortal gods survive only as long as they are required by mortal men.