From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   On 2015-04-17 01:16:39 +0000, William Vetter said:   
      
   > Dorothy J Heydt laid this down on his screen :   
   >> In article ,   
   >> William Vetter   wrote:   
   >>> on 04/15/2015, John W Kennedy supposed :   
   >>>> On 2015-04-15 07:28:55 +0000, Kay Shapero said:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> In article , mdhangton@gmail.com says...   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> What's the worst you can come up with?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> "Book".. though come to think of it there's one of those out there,   
   >>>>> though the title isn't in English, and it seems to be quite popular. :)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> "The Book" actually, mediated through a language with no definite article.   
   >>>   
   >>> I think that ... Quran means readings.   
   >>   
   >> Yes.  It seems an angel appeared to Muhammad and said to him,   
   >> "Read."  He answered, "I can't read."  (He was a camel-driver,   
   >> wasn't he?)  The angel repeated, "Read."  "What shall I read?"   
   >> "Read of God who created man from a clot of blood..." and so on.   
   >>   
   >> It's rather like the story of the English poet Caedmon, as told   
   >> by Bede; the angel said "Sing something to me."  Caedmon said, "I   
   >> can't sing."  "Nevertheless, you will sing to me."  "What shall I   
   >> sing?"  "Sing the creation."  Which Caedmon proceeded to do, and   
   >> we still have the text, as quoted by Bede.   
   >>   
   >> Curiously enough, both these men had their creative experience   
   >> around the same time, early seventh century CE.   
   >>   
   >> (Maybe it was the same angel? :) )   
   >   
   > In a similar visitation by the Angel Moroni on a hill near Palmyra, NY,   
   > _The Book of Mormon_ was given to Joseph Smith.  Mormon, he explained   
   > to us, was the name of Moroni's father.   
   > _The Pearl of Great Price_ is Smith's sequel to _The Book of Mormon_.   
   > I'm not sure if the angels gave him these titles, but they're more   
   > creative than just Sutras or Analects.   
      
   Smith was a modern. He expected books to have proper titles, though   
   Biblical tradition militated against that.   
      
   --   
   John W Kennedy   
   "Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts.  Only the heir to the throne   
   of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts"   
    -- J. Michael Straczynski.  "Babylon 5", "Ceremonies of Light and Dark"   
      
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