Subject: Re: Statue inconsistancy
From: jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer)
Date: 1991-06-15, 09:40
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Jun11.221007.25362@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> mjf@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Michael J Flory) writes:
> >
> >Yes, a statue of _Venus._  Saturn and Jupiter are not alone in the current
> >planetary conjuction -- even in the smoggy skies off Manhattan we can see
> >that Venus is the brightest of the three... I took the Venus de Milo to be

That's not Saturn, that's Mars.  Saturn is nowhere near any of them.

> >Beverages, potions, whatever, they're important in many myths.  When the
> >coffee froze, it seemed a logical result of the freezing of time.  But when
> >it turned viscous, it could have been time picking up steam again -- or was
> >it oil?  The oil of the gods is _burnt_ -- as are the offerings to the gods.

The coffee scene reminded me of something which takes place periodically,
although I can't remember the time or place.  A certain church has the
dried blood of a saint in a bottle, and on his day it turns to liquid
again.It's occasionally reported on the news, though it's been quite a
few years since I last saw it.

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