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Re: "The Dreaming" Question

From: "Forward, Jonathan" <JForward@SITGBSD1.TELECOM.com.au>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 94 09:04:00 EST
Subject: Re: "The Dreaming" Question
To: "rec.music.gaffa" <love-hounds@uunet.UU.NET>
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Date: Saturday, 19 November 1994 3:55PM
Jeff wrote:

]In article <1994Nov19.191202.4584@lafn.org>,
]Lisa Morton <ac506@lafn.org> wrote:
]
]>P.S. Bonus question:  Who is the "Professor Jerry Coe" referenced
]>in the video of EXPERIMENT IV?
]
]It's a pun.  Biblically speaking, the walls of the city Jericho were
]destroyed by the sound of trumpets (blown by angels?)  The weapon
]hypothesized in "Experiment IV" is nothing new...

 The trumpets were actually blown by priests as a signal to the
 besieging army to give a loud shout, and it was this shout which
 was supposed to have brought down the walls.  See Joshua 6 for a
 tedious account of the whole business.

TSB, Adelaide Australia
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