<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>WOW digging that quote.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>The city searches the sky for a sign, but no sign shall it have but the sign from the fish’s belly. <BR>(OBW 93). </DIV>
<DIV>Haven't read the gospels in too long.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>--- On <B>Mon, 4/16/12, Matthew Knight <I><jacobeiserman@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Matthew Knight <jacobeiserman@gmail.com><BR>Subject: Re: (urth) Severian as Jonah<BR>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth@lists.urth.net><BR>Date: Monday, April 16, 2012, 1:00 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV id=yiv676544462>Marc, I understand your qualms about Jonah's moral unsuitability. But the program is hardly going out on a limb here, as this comparison has a long history. Heck, it's even in the Bible, apparently in Christ's own words:
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; COLOR: rgb(0,0,51); FONT-SIZE: medium" size=3>"An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. </FONT><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; COLOR: rgb(0,0,51); FONT-SIZE: medium">For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" </SPAN><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; COLOR: rgb(0,0,51)" size=2>(Matthew 12:40)</FONT></DIV></DIV><BR>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<BR><BR>
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