Sunday school supplement #7: the value
Sunday, 10 June 2007

I’m sure I’m not the first to do this bit but I’ll bet I’m the first to use Doré for it. Teach that poor bastard to die and let his copyrights run out.
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Sunday, 10 June 2007
I’m sure I’m not the first to do this bit but I’ll bet I’m the first to use Doré for it. Teach that poor bastard to die and let his copyrights run out.
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A Milkmaid had been out to milk the cows and was returning from the field with the shining milk pail balanced nicely on her head. As she walked along, her pretty head was busy with plans for the days to come.
“This good, rich milk,” she mused, “will give me plenty of cream to churn. The butter I make I will take to market, and with the money I get for it I will buy a lot of eggs for hatching. How nice it will be when they are all hatched and the yard is full of fine young chicks. Then when May day comes I will sell them, and with the money I’ll buy a lovely new dress to wear to the fair. All the young men will look at me. They will come and try to make love to me,—but I shall very quickly send them about their business!”
As she thought of how she would settle that matter, she tossed her head scornfully, and down fell the pail of milk to the ground. And all the milk flowed out, and with it vanished butter and eggs and chicks and new dress and all the milkmaid’s pride.
Take that, subspace.
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Re: Sunday school supplement #7: the value
Is that corrected for purchasing power parity?
By Vagrant on 10 June 2007 · 11:05
Re: Sunday school supplement #7: the value
No. It’s a sad example of the language writing the joke. Denarii and shekels were the only currency I knew and 1 and 3 were easy counts to “speak.” The values are probably much higher than they should be for the materials for one crucifixion; “recycle,” we always say around here. That’s okay though, the price of the souls being saved is at such a discount—owing to the persistent buyers’ market—that no part of the economics involved will ever tally sensibly.
By A is A on 11 June 2007 · 00:29
Re: Sunday school supplement #7: the value
Magnificent use of the Dore, plus I had NOT come across this slant, tho' it is so obvious when you think of it. But what adds the final touch are the two preceding and very Pythonesque comments, including Sedition's characteristic deadpan delivery over currency conversion and soul-saving count.
It conjures images of the Dore hanging in all its magnificence in some magisterial gallery and cloth-capped Pete and Dud popping in for quick peek and this exchange taking place. Scruggs as Moore, of course, so that Ashley 'Cook' can take take the 'power parity' cue and run gleefully for touch, milking it for all its worth, as he does here.
If it really *had* been a Pete/Dudley sketch on the tele, the phone lines would have glowed red and the national grid gone for a burton.
By chris holmes on 11 June 2007 · 02:49
Re: Sunday school supplement #7: the value
Regarding that buyers market, I fully agree. The latter day Ecclesiastes of the church I attend said, "Any old soul is worth saving, at least to a priest; but not every soul is worth buying". Simple and apothegmatic, but none the less wise for all that.
The purchasing power query was mostly facetious. It sprang from my own concern that the money changers who were supposedly whipped from the temple may have been badly misrepresented -- as well as brutally treated. Rigid sanctimony does go hand in hand with insane violence and the dude's followers are hard to see as anything but volume after volume of indictments. So, while I don't want to get into apologetics for the state or the hierarchies of hierophants, there does appear to be some missing context to the crucifixion narrative. There's always been more to keeping a church viable than buggering children and fleecing the rubes.
Vigilante floggings of low level employees aren't helpful. I'm not saying the dude should have worked within the system, but his beef was with the executive veeps, then further up the food chain to the board member sharks.
By Vagrant on 11 June 2007 · 06:04