No, no, that's what happens when a man eats a DOLPHIN. But many thanks to Robin, meanwhile, for finding and posting that extraordinarily complex passage from Thomas, the exemplary skeptic. Candice > And if a man eats a lion they shoot the chef. > > Mark > > At 04:17 PM 9/27/2001 -0400, you wrote: >> Good question! I think the answer is "no, the lion gets shot...." >> >> Candice >> >> >>> Does that work in reverse? "If a lion eats a man..." >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> At 08:15 PM 9/27/2001 +0100, you wrote: >>>> Candice: >>>> >>>>> And the Gnostics were, among other things, the first environmentalists of >>>>> record in the West, not (co)incidentally. >>>> >>>> Could you expand on this? Interested -- a side of them I'd not focused > on. >>>> >>>> What's that saying in _The Gospel of James_ -- "If a man eats a lion, the >>>> man becomes a lion."? Not quite right, but I can't be bothered to look it >>>> up at the moment. >>>> >>>> Robin