MD3PAD 349-351

Toby G Levy tobylevy at juno.com
Sun May 14 07:44:26 CDT 2006


        Chapter 35 begins on page 349 with a paragraph from a book
written by Wicks entitled "Christ and History."  It is a rumination on
the nature of History, explaining that history is neither chronology nor
remembrance. Analysis of events is required .

        There follows a debate amongst Wicks' audience as to the nature
of history. Some believe that the truth cannot be found and that all is
opinion, while others say that the truth must be found and reported.
Uncle Ives weighs in against the Novel and how it wastes the time of the
reader, while others want to know how they should feel about
fictionalized history such as was found in Shakespeare.

Toby



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