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 <p>Job puts forward a note of interrogation; God answers with a note of exclamation. Instead of proving to Job that it is an explicable world, He insists that it is a much stranger world than Job ever thought it was.</p>
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-<p>At best guess, there are no two more hotly contested, more thoroughly discussed books in the Christian bible than those of Job and Revelation.<sup id="fnref:1revelation"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1revelation">1</a></sup></p>
+<p>All stories are perforce interpolations within real events, or at least the initial imaginings of fictional events. The story is not written the events happen. All stories, all conversations. They all occur at least at one layer of remove and at least a fraction of a second too late.</p>
+<p>Stories are as bound to time as we are, and all we can do is steal back a little bit of memory through however many words. All we can do with these memories pinned in place is regard them from a second level of distance and make guesses. Guesses as to meaning, guesses as to content, guesses as to the context in which those memories might have led to their origin.</p>
+<p>At a guess, there is no book in the Bible buried deeper under layers of guesses than Job.<sup id="fnref:1revelation"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1revelation">1</a></sup></p>
 <p>Perhaps it is the dire nature by which both approach the world. Job takes a look at the world, heaves a weary sigh, and says, &ldquo;I suppose this is it. This is the lot we have been given in life.&rdquo; While Revelation looks at the world and growls deep in its through, a sound coming from the belly, and says, &ldquo;This must not be it. This cannot be the ways in which the world works.&rdquo;<sup id="fnref:1works"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1works">4</a></sup></p>
 <p>Or perhaps it is the way in which they view death. While Job looks on death almost fondly,<sup id="fnref:1fonddeath"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1fonddeath">2</a></sup> Revelation reiterates the Christian sentiment that death has been defeated in the context of apocalypse. It is no more, and as there is everlasting life beyond it, it is worth considering only in that context and otherwise worth discarding.</p>
 <p>Additionally, while doubtless Jews may have a dim opinion of Revelation, given its relative irrelevance in their lives, Job has been the subject of both rabbinical teaching and Christian exegesis for centuries now. This may be where it outstrips Revelation in its interest.</p>
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-<p>Revelation is unimportant to this discussion, anyway. There is much that falls out of its existence that I care very much about, of course. I care about the way it is used, and while I will be discussing the way that Job is used, I also care about the text, which is not something I can say about Revelation.&#160;<a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:1revelation" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text">&#8617;</a></p>
+<p>Revelation might take the cake within Christianity, but is unimportant to this discussion. There is much that falls out of its existence that I care very much about, of course. I care about the way it is used, and while I will be discussing the way that Job is used, I also care about the text, which is not something I can say about Revelation.&#160;<a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:1revelation" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text">&#8617;</a></p>
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 <p>And while I am (quite obviously) not yet fond of death, I can appreciate the fact that one has at least known it.&#160;<a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:1fonddeath" title="Jump back to footnote 2 in the text">&#8617;</a></p>