Wash ,'The Message'
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Gah, Jesse, that's a total ew. I somehow completely blocked that part out from my memory of the series. Actually, I can't remember much of any of the plots, just the characters: Mona and Ms. Madrigal and Mouse and Mary Ann (I don't think I can ever re-read the last novel because of her).
Damn, but that's a lot of M's.
It was weird to read through it and think about exactly how I came to know the various items.
The quiz punked out for me after question #5, but I was thinking how everything I know about Judaism I learned from the All of a Kind Family books I read as a kid. I knew much more about Purim and the Sabbath than I did about what being Presbyterian was supposed to mean, in fact.
I knew about the Reformation in high school, also about transubstantiation, but mostly through my voracious reading of historical fiction.
In college, I definitely had classes that went into the Ref in depth (studying the Reformation introduced me to the concept of defenestration, a word and concept that tickles me to no end, that we have a specific word that refers to death by tossing one out a window) and then studying medieval lit and history...
Well, I know an awful lot about Catholicism, but my views are pretty damned...uh, medieval. I know tons from Roman times to the 19th century, and then it's all "many nuns took off their habits and no one uses Latin anymore, dammit."
I can thank fiction for my broad general knowledge of world religions, for the most part.
I somehow completely blocked that part out from my memory of the series.
What's funny about that is that it's an amnesia storyline! Good times.
Hrm. Most of what I know of Judaism goes from the OT to the Rennaissance, too, actually.
Are the words "tear" in "I'm gonna tear him a new one" and "A tear slid down his face" pronounced differently?
Yes - the first is "tare" and the second is "teer".
eta: Unless the second sentence is from a horror novel, in which case it may in fact be a "tare" tear.
Is that an American thing, or do I speak funny inside my head?
I can't remember when/where I learned about transubstantiation. My dad was lapsed & atheist long before I was born, and I can't remember ever asking my Catholic grandparents about it. It's just one of those things I picked up somewhere.