Cain, Abel, and Shem...

[Christopher Tassava]

Not to underrate Mr. Dinn's literary knowledge, but just to set straight 
some Biblical chronology (izzat an oxymoron?): Abel and Cain, among 
others, were Adam's sons, and there were a number of generations between 
ol' Abel and Cain, those sonsabitches, and Noah, the progenitor of Shem 
(father of the Arabs and Jews), Ham (father of the black Africans), and 
Japheth (father of everyone else?).  See Genesis 5-11 for information 
concerning the lineage, the doubting of which will cause your eternal 
damnation.  ObPynchon: I'll bet TRP has spent some mental energy on the 
whole issue of Noah's issue.  It (meaning the whole "curse of Ham" 
myth) goes partway towards understanding the foundations of European 
racism contra Africans.
-- 
Xferen

"Important to keep going, obliterate the sure thing	Don DeLillo,
and come upon a moment of stealthy blessing."		_Mao II_