Mosaic
Here is an intriguing character, a choleric and cynical fellow with an uncooperative and violent attitude to life. For Act One of his life, he is brought up as a prince in a polytheistic society. He commits manslaughter and exiles himself for Act Two of his life to a nomadic pantheistic one. And for Act Three, he becomes the unwilling leader of a bunch of stiff-necked monotheists. He has three thousand of them killed on his own initiative in the early years. He dominates them ruthlessly, curses them, accuses them of making his life miserable - and he becomes an icon forever, in the hearts of these same people.
Go figure. And why do some people say I am a bit like him?
Go figure. And why do some people say I am a bit like him?
Labels: Bible, Character, Exodus, Moses, Personality, Profiling, Violence
etched with acid at 3:18:00 am
4 Comments:
well. you do enjoy the wilderness you know. they tried to put you back into the supposed land of milk and honey but you decided to..ermm..go away. :)
maybe it's the problem with anger, and the writing that's so good it deserves to be stone-etched.
or maybe it's the petitioning - it's the staff thing. (I refuse to acknowledge any sexual inneundo. At this rate there will be no words left to describe stuff - not that - anymore)
...not to mention all the locusts.
grouchy elflord: i suppose, being a grouchy israelite-chief is little better... i think encik musa must've been some sort of dunadan; he was 120 and still strong when he died from not being allowed to enter the promised land.
xinhui: oh yes, it's a locust of control thing; and i'll have you know that i have never had problems with my staff - it's the others which are dreadful. *grin*
hah! exactly what moses would have said while turning his staff into a snake.
the people rest their case.
not that I ever said you were a bit like him, of course.
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