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Draft Zero of The Five-Dimensional Man, 2300 words.

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Judges 19, repeats part of the Sodom story: an immigrant hosts a traveller, only for his house to be surrounded by his neighbours demanding to "know" the stranger. Instead, he leaves his concubine to their mercy, and they "know" and abuse her to death. (Lot only goes as far as offering his virgin daughters, who are saved by the angels' intervention.)

The same Hebrew word is used twice in the Gibeah story, a verb with multiple meanings. Scholars point out that it's only occasionally used in the Bible to mean "to have sex with". Some therefore conclude that the crowd were intent on raping the stranger. But I wonder if it's a blackly humorous pun on the part of the storyteller: if we can't know him, we'll "know" her. It's also possible that what the crowd really wanted all along was a bribe.

Very very angry

lizbee's review of Chicks Dig Time Lords claims that I "created an anti-racism community for whites only". That's not true. I've told her so, and asked her to correct her review. What a horrible thing to say.

ETA: I've asked her a second time.

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lizbee's review of Chicks Dig Time Lords claims that I "created an anti-racism community for whites only". That's not true. I've told her so, and asked her to correct her review. What a horrible thing to say.

ETA: lizbee has now corrected her review to remove the untrue statement. I appreciate her honesty.