witnesses were fundamental--and which witnesses should be the "real" ones was debated at the council of nicea, after constantine converted and all that. they are, in the main, funny kinds of witnesses, writing well after the events, something like 150 years. but still. without the texts, there would be no story. without the story, there would be no belief. qed.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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