HumanistsMN Fantasy Book Club: "Lamb" By Christopher Moore

Note* Location TBD but will not be the typical meeting place at river view.

Any and all are welcome at our monthly HumanistsMN Fantasy Book Club! Join us the last Wednesday of every month. Come discuss the book of the month with us -- or listen in and contribute to our frequent meanderings about pop-culture and other passions.

Our book for February is "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore

You think you know how this story is going to end, but you
don't. Trust me, I was there. I know.
The first time I saw the man who would save the world he was
sitting near the central well in Nazareth with a lizard hanging out
of his mouth. Just the tail end and the hind legs were visible on
the outside; the head and forelegs were halfway down the hatch.
He was six, like me, and his beard had not come in fully, so he
didn't look much like the pictures you've seen of him. His eyes
were like dark honey, and they smiled at me out of a mop of
blue-black curls that framed his face. There was a light older
than Moses in those eyes.
"Unclean! Unclean!" I screamed, pointing at the boy, so my
mother would see that I knew the Law, but she ignored me, as
did all the other mothers who were filling their jars at the well.
The boy took the lizard from his mouth and handed it to his
younger brother, who sat beside him in the sand. The younger
boy played with the lizard for a while, teasing it until it reared its
little head as if to bite, then he picked up a rock and mashed the
creature's head. Bewildered, he pushed the dead lizard around
in the sand, and once assured that it wasn't going anywhere on
its own, he picked it up and handed it back to his older brother.
Into his mouth went the lizard, and before I could accuse,
out it came again, squirming and alive and ready to bite once
again. He handed it back to his younger brother, who smote it
mightily with the rock, starting or ending the whole process
again.
I watched the lizard die three more times before I said, "I want to do
that too."
The Savior removed the lizard from his mouth and said, "Which part?"
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Our book club facilitator is Cory Brodeur, HumanistsMN member, who enjoys getting lost in fantasy books, nerdy pop culture discussions, and cats. Cory's goal is to bring people together to bond over fantasy worlds while discussing how we can make positive changes in the real world!

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