champagne supernova II

in my haste to post yesterday's exhaustive catalog of the sir ian experience, i left out one of the weirdest details.

CS and i were standing there by the non-burning fire pit, enjoying the occasional breeze and gawking about. i turned and looked down at the stone rim of the pit, where suddenly a single torn-out page from a book had appeared. before i looked at it i knew it was a page from the bible -- it had that crinkly tissue-paper feeling. when i held it closer i saw it was a page from the old testament book of leviticus ... specifically, chapters 18-19, which deals with all that jazz about "uncovering" various people's "nakedness" and such. it includes, of course, the edict of verse 22, "'you shall not lie wiuth a male as with a woman. it is an abomination.'"

we both caught our breath a little and looked at each other. we were both thinking, what a strange page of the bible to bring to this party. sir ian had briefly brandished a gideon bible on stage; perhaps this page came from it, i couldn't say for sure, although the size was right. maybe it was some sort of joke? anyway, i decided to take it with me ... partly b/c i didn't want to leave it lying around. you never know what impressionable youngsters will think about a thing like that.