Irving Finkel

Come on, how big was it?

So what do they do?

They go to a coracle place.

and they work out the proportions of material, and then they bump it up so that the actor who reads this for the first few times, he has in his pocket how much it is, but after a while he knows it by heart, so that none of these people get angry.

You can't expect us big enough for all this.

So then you'd have all the stuff, and they'd do it this way, and you need all this, and you need all this, and they'd all be hypnotized by it.

That, I think, is actually, regarding your question, it's on the cusp of purely oral literature to purely literary literature.

It's actually there because you can see that it was molded in the environment when people were still talking.

Well, you couldn't pull it over their eyes.

Rigor is one of the things lacking in the world.

Well, it can't really be noisy.

I tell you what the explanation is.

It's something quite different.

Before the flood, the gods had not created death.

So I think the noise was a reflex of the fact there were just too many animals, too many people, and they had to do something about it.

So it's a sort of euphemism, so to speak, because after the flood, at the end of the tablet, not my tablet, but the other ones, where it's still broken, it says there's a tantalizing thing where they create...

barren women who can't have children and men who can't have children and people who, princesses who don't have children, they institute in society some figures who will not reproduce the species.

So it's actually a rather sophisticated Malthusian kind of philosophical position.

It's remarkable.

So that the noise means there's so many of them.