Again, I hit a good stride...
Feb. 9th, 2004 08:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Recently, we've dealt with a brand of fundie who claims that because certain features written about in Jerusalem still exist, it proves the entire Bible is true. Another person pointed out that he lives in New Orleans, the setting for the majority of Ann Rice's vampire books) and has been to many of the places written about in those stories. This is where I come it.
Lo, many moons past, on 9 Feb 2004 08:11:36 -0800, a stranger called by some rbwinn47@mybluelight.com (Robert B. Winn) came forth and told this tale in alt.atheism
>> Which shows that the fact that there are some facts in a work of
>> fiction isn't proof that everything in it is true.
>
>The New Orleans in the fiction book does not exist. There is no such place.
Oh? I've been in the San Francisco hotel where _Interview With The Vampire_ opens.
I've also taken walking tours of "Sam Spade's San Francisco"... the location of Sam's office, the alleyway where Miles is shot (there's a plaque there), the hotels, and finally to the restaurant where Dashiell Hammett wrote the book. They are all quite real places, I assure you. Therefore, in the late 1930s, Miles Archer real was gunned down by Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and Miles' partner Sam Spade was pulled into the search for the fabulous Maltese Falcon by the weaseling Joel Cairo and the mastermind Kasper Gutman.
Or maybe it was all just the stuff dreams are made of...
Recently, we've dealt with a brand of fundie who claims that because certain features written about in Jerusalem still exist, it proves the entire Bible is true. Another person pointed out that he lives in New Orleans, the setting for the majority of Ann Rice's vampire books) and has been to many of the places written about in those stories. This is where I come it.
Lo, many moons past, on 9 Feb 2004 08:11:36 -0800, a stranger called by some rbwinn47@mybluelight.com (Robert B. Winn) came forth and told this tale in alt.atheism
>> Which shows that the fact that there are some facts in a work of
>> fiction isn't proof that everything in it is true.
>
>The New Orleans in the fiction book does not exist. There is no such place.
Oh? I've been in the San Francisco hotel where _Interview With The Vampire_ opens.
I've also taken walking tours of "Sam Spade's San Francisco"... the location of Sam's office, the alleyway where Miles is shot (there's a plaque there), the hotels, and finally to the restaurant where Dashiell Hammett wrote the book. They are all quite real places, I assure you. Therefore, in the late 1930s, Miles Archer real was gunned down by Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and Miles' partner Sam Spade was pulled into the search for the fabulous Maltese Falcon by the weaseling Joel Cairo and the mastermind Kasper Gutman.
Or maybe it was all just the stuff dreams are made of...
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Date: 9 Feb 2004 21:36 (UTC)no subject
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Date: 10 Feb 2004 14:23 (UTC)But you might try digging up some other middle eastern mythology and pointing out that (for example) the Pyramids, the Sphinx and various temples to Egyptian gods still exist. So the Egyptian Book of the Dead must be true also.