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...text so old and so revered be subject to profitable re-examination? Does a work so central to Western culture need a spotlight? Genesis is widely regarded as humanity's first, revolutionary statement of the notion that there is but one God, and no day passes when we do not touch upon its stories. Glancingly, as when we note the bitten-apple logo on our computer. Or deeply, as when we heed the words of Jesus, Luther or Freud, all of whom took up the great truths and agonizing questions set out by Hebrew scribes sometime between the 10th...
...woefully low. In this instance, however, it may be because the Sunday school version of Genesis is a lot easier to handle than the real thing. And for those--arguably Moyers' primary audience--who still understand the book as a series of tableaux, a close encounter with the original text, its spiky narrative and decidedly imperfect heroes, may prove an alarming yet exhilarating experience...
...treated like a gigantic leap of mankind, then is pushed aside for yet another revelation. After a few years of childless marriage, for example, Thelma's mother-in-law becomes concerned and takes action, asking "the old man to come." After that summoning, there is a break in the text, as if an earth-shattering meeting, or story-changing event is about to take place. The next paragraph contains a description of the old man as a "cloud of gray," even elaborating on the kind of cloth his clothes are made of. The reader is set up to believe...
...most sophisticated self-propagating sites are the so-called MUDS (multi-user dimensions). These virtual worlds have flourished in text-only form for years; now faster networks and better software tools let developers create graphic 3-D versions. Trippy futuristic environments such as Time Warner's Palace Website and the landscapes of Worlds Inc. invite Net surfers to wander in and explore, chatting with strangers, flirting, picking fights, hatching plots...
...nothing if not ambitious, but he does have a great subject. For it was Collins who, in the aftermath of the disastrous Easter Rising of 1916, which proved the hopelessness of open confrontation with Britain's occupying army, virtually invented urban guerrilla warfare, in effect writing the Ur-text on hit-and-run terrorism on Dublin's jostling streets. His work influenced generations of rebels everywhere. Then, having brought the British to their knees--and to the bargaining table--Collins in 1921 helped to negotiate the peace settlement that established the Irish Free State but failed to win full independence...