Brilliant quote.
Simply.Brilliant.

Thenk yew.

A sailor's Christ would have drowned an honest death, then walked out from beneath the waves three days later.

...except that the Romans got to choose the method of execution.

That's lovely.

Lovely quote. But Jesus wasn't a sailor -- he was a carpenter, so he died nailed to wood.

Extratextual context: The line is from a sailor's inner monolog written in fairly tight third. Also, when I wrote it, I was thinking of the Leonard Cohen's Suzanne:

And Jesus was a sailor when He walked upon the water
And He spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden tower
And when He knew for certain only drowning men could see Him
He said, "All men will be sailors then until the sea shall free them."
But He, Himself, was broken long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human, He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone

Edited at 2007-11-11 03:08 am (UTC)

"...like some ragged stranger
Died upon the cross
And might I say it seems so fitting in its way
He was a carpenter by trade
Or at least thats what I'm told..."
-"The Mercy Seat," Nick Cave

wow. Your words? Mighty fine. Cohen's words? Kill me ded.

Lennie is quite a big influence on me. But I think maybe you knew that.

I had...an idea, yeah. :-)