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Claim ledger
8 transcript-backed records
01 / belief
“I think that’s true, but I think in Mesopotamia it was different in terms of its potency and immediacy because there are no skyscrapers in Iraq.”
02 / belief
“I think so. But the paradoxical thing about Tom Lehrer is that when he’s talking about the bomb and all that, and devices, and international trouble, it’s so unchanged.”
03 / belief
“I think if you put them on a bus all wearing the same clothes, you wouldn’t know.”
04 / belief
“I think the big mistake for mankind was the creation of monotheistic religions, because they brought evil into the world.”
05 / belief
“I think my dad recorded them off the radio on a reel-to-reel tape recorder, and I learned them all by heart because they were so fantastic.”
06 / belief
“I do. I think the fireside narrative matters. You know, when we were kids it would be twerps with a guitar sitting around a fire on holiday.”
07 / belief
“I would say negligible, because I regard it as a literary matter— …which is not predicated on the existence of flood in people’s minds.”
08 / belief
“The rivers, sometimes there wasn’t enough water, sometimes there was too much, sometimes there was far too much water. So the mechanism that the waters could be used as a destructive force by the powers that be is a plausible Mesopotamian mechanism and is based, in a sort of sense, in my opinion, in reality.”