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To: Jane Hafker who wrote (72)	12/28/1997 11:02:00 PM
From: David S.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 609

Constantine makes great pasta. Maybe I got him confused with an Italian food company that sounds similar. Regardless, I can provide you with many unusual questions, such as, "If it rained for 40 days and nights, did the ducks really care?" What about amphibians? These may sound like silly questions, but they bring to light the issue of a literal interpretation of the Bible vs. a mixture of literal plus metaphorical plus gradual change over time.

To: Jane Hafker who wrote (72)	12/30/1997 12:40:00 PM
From: Skipper	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 609

Jane, I didn't know what you meant by "the ultimate horror", so I looked in my "Oxford Companion to Classical Literature", and found this: "Saturnalia, in Roman religion, a festival celebrated from the 17th to 19th December (15th to 17th at the end of the republic according to Roscher), in honor of Saturnus (q.v.) and in celebration of the sowing of the crops. It was a period of general festivity, licence for slaves, giving of presents, lighting of candles, the prototype, if not the origin, of our Christmas festivities. It completely lost, probably under Greek influence, its primitive Italian character of an agricultural festival." So it would seem, whatever the significance of 14 DAYS, or some "ultimate horror", that myths are still being generated in the present age. Skipper