Wotan of the Jungle, Outboard Motors, Original Sin
• In the early part of the twentieth century, an explorer in the Amazon rain forest made first contact with a hostile tribe called the Nhambiquara. At first he couldn't even approach their camp without a fusillade of poisoned arrows coming his way, but he eventually won them over, luring them into his camp at night by playing the operas of Richard Wagner on his phonograph.
• The first workable outboard motor was invented by one Ole Evinrude. Oh, you knew that.
• The doctrine of Original Sin is unique to Western Christianity. Eastern Orthodoxy has no such notion, nor have Judaism and Islam. It was developed, mainly by Saint Augustine, in the 4th century, when the Western Roman Empire was falling into chaos and disaster. It seemed to make sense at the time.
• The first workable outboard motor was invented by one Ole Evinrude. Oh, you knew that.
• The doctrine of Original Sin is unique to Western Christianity. Eastern Orthodoxy has no such notion, nor have Judaism and Islam. It was developed, mainly by Saint Augustine, in the 4th century, when the Western Roman Empire was falling into chaos and disaster. It seemed to make sense at the time.