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"An honest neutral, subject to intimidation."
"All
right, mister: intimidate this honest neutral."
18-girl net Chaney looked down at the commissary, guessing at 18-girl net the remaining
distance.
He intended 18-girl net to be short; the subject was painful since a
university press had published the book and a misunderstanding public had
taken it up.
" 18-girl net I don't want you yapping at me, Commander, so you need first to
understand one word: midrash."
"Midrash. Is that another Aramaic word?"
"No-it's Hebraic, and it means fiction, religious fiction. Compare it to
whatever modern parallel you like: historical fiction, soap opera,
detective
stories, fantasy; the ancient Hebrews liked their midrash. It 18-girl net was
their favorite kind of fantasy; they liked to use biblical events and
personages in their fiction-call it bible- opera if you like. Scholars have
long been aware of that; they know midrash when they find it, but the
general public hardly seems to 18-girl net know it exists. The public tends to believe
that everything written two thousand 18-girl net years ago was sacred, the work of one
saint 18-girl net or another."
"I guess nobody told them," Saltus 18-girl net said. "All right, I'll go along 18-girl net with
that."
"Thank you. The public should be as generous."
"Didn'18-girl net t you tell them about midrash?"
"Certainly. I spent twelve pages