tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 09 10:57:45 1997

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Re: Age of Ascension





On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen wrote:

> This weekend marks the Bar Mitzvah of my youngest nephew, and so tomorrow morning 
> (far too early in the morning) my wife and I will be travelling to California for 
> the festivities.
> 
> This of course got me thinking about Klingon parallels (more than one fan has 
> attempted to suggest that Klingons are the metaphorical jews of Star Trek, but I 
> don't want to get into any of that) and once again my overactive dream life 
> rendered up a serving of sureality which I feel only fitting (and therapeutic) to 
> share.
> 
> In my dream it was Saturday and I was at the synagouge. I was called up to the 
> podium by the rabbi to say the blessing of the torah (as I will be this weekend) 
> but instead of the Hebrew blessing I began speaking in Klingon, doing the whole 
> age of ascension monologue (in second person of course, pointing to my nephew), 
> going on and on about crossing the river of blood and how he had to show us his 
> heart yakka yakka yakka. Then, reaching into my coat pocket I took out my 
> fountain pen (yes, I really have one of those in my pocket), walked over and 
> stabbed the boy with it. He endured the pain honorably and I turned to the 
> congregation and proclaimed "DaHjaj loD ghaHchoH."
> 
> And then I woke up.
> 
> Um, okay, that's it for me.  See you all when I get back next week.  Don't burn 
> down the KLI while I'm gone.
> 
> Lawrence
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Hi

a question to that,
is it possible that klingon and hebraic (the language, i don't know the 
proper english term) is somewhat similar?

Semper fi
R. Weber


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