> True. However, this current subthread started with the following: > > > I swear I've seen a big stone one of Lincoln, sitting > >down. You mean that it WON'T come to the defense of Liberty > >when a rabbi writes the word on its forehead? >
So? He got confused, since, in the legend, the rabbi makes a clay figure and animates it, he does not do it to an existing statue. He had the right idea but applied it wrongly.
Interestingly, in his novel Snow in August, set in Brooklyn in the late
1940s, Pete Hammill has a rabbi who is a refugee from Nazi Germany teach a Catholic
teenager he befriends how to create the Golem. Good book.
Tom Beck
It may have been a comic book instead of a novel, but I remember reading the same story updated, with the Golem being created on the moon. (And my crazy mind wants to mix it with Heinlein stories. Imagine that, a Golem wearing a kilt and waving a six-shooter around, with half nekkid wimmen and a talking sentient spaceship. It's time for my meds now.)
But seriously, it was created on the moon and I think it was sent to the earth, then turned on, on the last page. (Is that a firearm under your kilt or are you just happy to see me? Stop it!) Not turned on that way, but brought to life to the horror of the creator's enemies. The golem's creator, that is.
Kevin T. - VRWC Corn, wonderful corn
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