"Avram is the beginning of yet another era."

Monday, 21 December 1998

I had been thinking for over a year of registering the domain avram.org, but I procrastinated too long and someone else got it first: Some very odd soul in Australia has put up a page about "The Grand Duchy of Avram," on which you may find the following text:

Avram means "He who possessed, the basis of the world". It is sometimes a symbol of all that radiates from the sun. To the ancient, Ram was the basis of the world. To the Druids it was the symbol of universal essence. It is said that he who had pierced the secret of the Ram need only retain the essentials. Avram is he, who, having gone through many layers of differentiation, receives the pulsation of life, which transfigures that proliferation on a level with cosmic action. In simple words, the action of an Avram in his own house has cosmic significance. Avram is the beginning of yet another era. With him religion frees itself and directs itself towards the perception of the Inner Light of God.

Well, gosh fellas, thanks. "The action of an Avram in his own house has cosmic significance." I've been cleaning a lot the past week or two, folks. I don't know what that'll come out to on a cosmically significant level, but consider yourselves warned.

Chris took her last final today. We celebrated by seeing A Bug's Life at the Village East. Comparisons to Antz are inevitable, I suppose. Both movies are lots of fun, and worth seeing. I thought A Bug's Life was more inventive, and had a more interesting plot. Not that either film is terribly original in the plot department -- the basic story structures seem to have been written by flowchart. But the variables that A Bug's Life plugged into the chart were more clever. On the other hand, I think Antz had some more sophisticated humor.

One minor detail that annoyed me about Antz was the inconsistent way it treated water. Some scenes made a big deal about surface tension, others just ignored it. A Bug's Life did a really good job in this respect, portraying a rainstorm as something on a level with carpet bombing. Raindrops are nasty at the millimeter scale.