RE: talking snake
February 10, 2013 at 4:34 pm
(This post was last modified: February 10, 2013 at 4:34 pm by Cyberman.)
(February 10, 2013 at 4:29 pm)catfish Wrote: נחש
v. to guess
nm. snake, serpent
What if the "snake" in the story was just human reasoning, a guess?
Then it would make even less sense in context. You know you're officially over the rainbow when a talking snake becomes the more rational of the available options.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'