Bear

Callie and I read and read Saturday night trying to understand the confusing work of Faulkner. Then while trying to link together Isaac's name with where it may have come from we had a small revelation. We discussed Abraham's promise land, and that as well as Isaac having an illegitimate brother and the other obvious similarities the BIG one is that Isaac's descendants receive the "Promise Land" after being slaves in Egypt for a little while (*only a couple of generations). And Ishmael does not receive the promised land. And just as quickly as the Israelites receive being to live in this new land flowing with milk and honey they find themselves being punished for neglecting to recognize who brought them to the land and who truly owns the land. This is exemplified as they are carted off to other places (Like Babylon) and then brought back to their original settlements, and today the land of Israel is still brutally fought over by the descendents of Ishmael and Isaac. What an interesting comparison between the middle east land and the land in the United States, however, it all really comes back to the question discussed in class. Can we really own land? Can we really own anything?

Sure, we can walk around with a computer believing that we own it, but how easy is it to lose the computer? Someone could steal it, it could break, but I think in a lot of ways it comforts us as humans to believe that things beyond ourselves can belong to us...

I am pretty sure that was a stream of consciousness rambling.

And I can't figure out how to spell descendents!!