Nero's Coming To Get You!
For anyone concerned about getting trampled by the Four Horsemen tomorrow, I suggest you stay home and pass a quiet day with a copy of Hermann Hesse's Demian.
It's a bit of a dull book (in my opinion) but you have to admit he did originate the concept of the MILF.
"Neron Caesar," written in Hebrew letters, numerically totals up to 666, although in his fascinating and scholarly Guide to the Bible, Isaac Asimov suggests that the Number of the Beast is more likely to have been an oblique reference to Domitian, on the throne and persecuting merrily away at the time Revelations was written.
In fact, if I were you I'd toss the copy of "Demian" and read some Asimov instead; The Sensuous Dirty Old Man would be an excellent choice.
Asimov knew a thing or two about MILFs too.
posted by Beth @ 5:48 PM
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Hey now, don't diss Demian! (Can we still use a word like "diss" on the internet? Is it retro yet?) Its a great book for struggling adolescent boys who are head over heels in love with Teutonic mysticism. Just because you were never one doesn't mean that it was a bad book. I don't rail against Jane Eyre or the Bronte sister do I?
Point taken, although I've never been much of a Bronte fan.
Actually I was more expecting to get shot completely out of the water saying Hesse originated the concept of the MILF - and in a blog post about the Bible, no less!
Well, Mary was a virgin. Can that count as being a MILF?
I'd vote yes, but I can see a very interesting debate arising...
Not that I necessarily want to, you know, with Mary. For the record.
Wow. For the second time in as many days, here is yet another apropos place to quote the lyrics from one of my favorite Stereolab songs (well, strictly speaking they're ALL favorites):
The Incredible He Woman
month one mary grows a mustache
in the second she grows a beard
in the third month her breasts fall off
the fourth month testicles appear
the fifth her penis shows its face
in the sixth month grows a foreskin
it took nine months made evident
experience, she gave it hands
in the seventh month, christ's sandals grow on her
in the eighth month, her chest becomes transparent
in the ninth wounds appear as christ is apparent
and then she was christ
and mary disappeared
I posted this as a comment on a friend's blog yesterday and only caused further confusion. Let's hope we do better here.
Man, now I really don't want to make Mary a "proper" woman. I don't even know what this last sentence meant. I feel like having sex with the Virgin Mother is something that cannot be described in words.
Yes, I mentioned that in passing in my comment...
...and this has been a pretty surreal conversation, by the way. Also the most comments I've ever gotten on one post, so how about that?
Let's go comment on the new one, shall we?
But this old thread is so delightful.
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