Graydal, the Kirkasanter navigator:
"'Myself, insofar as I believe the myths have any truth, I suspect our ancestors were thieves or bandits, or-'
"'Daughter!' Demring hurried on, in a scandalized voice..." (p. 732)
What a way to speak of the ancestors! Was she about to say "rebels"? That would have been the right answer.
One man's rebel is another man's thief:
And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas. (Mt. 27: 16)
And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection. (Mk. 15: 7)
18 And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:
19 (Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.) (Lk. 23: 18-19)
Now Barabbas was a robber.” (Jn. 18: 40)
Whatever Barabbas was, people regarded him in different ways.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
That was an amusing bit you quoted from "Starfog"! I recall Anderson writing of how, after some of his readers had read both that story and THE REBEL WORLDS, convinced him the Kirkasanters descended from some of the McCormac rebels booted out of the Empire.
Ad astra! Sean
Barabbas was probably a "Robin Hood" type in popular estimation.
Of course, in reality he was probably just a murdering bandit who traded on popular resentment of the Romans.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I agree. Barabbas almost certainly deserved only a quick hanging!
Robin Hood? I'm more inclined to sympathize with the Sheriff of Nottingham! His job, after all, was to maintain law and order and put down bandits like Robbing Hoodlum!
Ad astra! Sean
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