So does your hypothetical Creator show up as a part of the universe, neither creating nor created? (Note that I think Cronus, for instance, is a creator.)

Huh? Did you mean to type God for Creator? Sure, he could. Or he could have been the Creator's distant cousin, or created just like me. Except with higher quality parts.

Oh, gotcha. God's a side effect: you got your planets, your interstellar rubbish, and one or more Gods. That works.

Did you mean to type God for Creator?

Yup. I got no brains today.

Teppy, I think you'd like Justine better now. It's all sex and mysteries and cabals and such.

I can certainly imagine proving that God exists and is a right bastard

That's Norman Mailer's famous quote in The Naked and the Dead. "If there is a God, he's a son of a bitch."

Vw - you probbably have 'til the end of the week before everything truely subsides with the inhaled steroids. - Just keep trying to go back to school, but accept that you might have to give up and go home. and Honestly, it was well over a month before I wasn't useing the abuteral at all.

Teppy, I think you'd like Justine better now. It's all sex and mysteries and cabals and such.

....in a sexy, nighttime telly sort of way? t /Izzard

....in a sexy, nighttime telly sort of way?

Well, I think so, but I think Durrell is pretty readable. I love stuff set in Colonial Northern Africa.

Of course, Durrell turned out to be supremely fucked up (in the Anne Sexton manner) but I don't hold that against his fiction.

In some people, it's sort of a creative asset.

Between Justine and The Sheltering Sky, I concluded that Northern Africa is full of really fucked-up people.

Between Justine and The Sheltering Sky, I concluded that Northern Africa is full of really fucked-up people.

That's the good part. It's good for the fiction. Of course, we're speaking mostly of the ex-pats of the 30s-50s. Not the locals who probably weren't particularly fucked up.