Mar. 8th, 2008

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A few days ago the internet suffered a flurry of stories reporting that a researcher had discovered that Moses and the mass of Israelites had experienced the Mt. Sinai Theophany (as well as the earlier burning bush episode) under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs. There is also a PDF of the original article posted on the web. Tedious really. I wouldn’t mention it except Mme. Malkhos suggested some of our readers might find my comments about it humorous.

 

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Last night Andrew informed me that everyone has a bad impulse and a good impulse (when I expanded on this by telling him it is as if we were all charioteers with one good horse and one bad horse he didn't quite comprehend, probably because he doesn't know what a chariot is).

Later he made his first efforts at spelling by associating the letters with repetitive patterns in the wallpaper, practicing the art of memory.
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On Thursday night, Andrew went with his grandfather (my father), to see Grammy in the hospital. Andrew is currently confined to a wheelchair while his broken leg mends.

Later, Andrew kept telling me about how he had almost been in another wreck. I didn't think too much about it since I thought he was talking about the actual car wreck in which his leg was broken.

It turns out he was right. Apparently, as my father was pushing Andrew's little wheelchair towards the sidewalk ramp, a driver parked by the curb who was trying to pull into the street and didn't see my father or Andrew. The car lurched forward and nearly struck them, but the driver was able to slam on the brakes before we had another catastrophe to deal with.

"What did Papa say?" I asked Andrew.

He thought, trying to remember. Then he affected a deep, loud voice. "Damn it, God, why don't you look where you're going and clear out, you sunny!"

What Papa really said was (the loud voice was correct on Andrew's part): "Goddammit, why don't you look where you're going before you try to clear out, you son-of-a-bitch!"

Andrew has since perfected it.

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