Thanks.
Believe it or not but from my memory the pyschic gorilla (Ishmael) uses the Bible to convinve James Lee that it was the ‘orginal sin’ or something to that effect that causes mankind to move from being ‘Leavers’ to becoming ‘Takers’.
It all started in the Garden of Eden or something and mankind defied their nature of living at peace with the land and decided to ‘take’ of the forbidden fruit. Thus they became the Takers and no longer lived in the Garden (they migrated) but sought to rule the land and ‘take’ of it.
I am seriosuly paraphrasing though and trying to remember the book with ten years gone. But I am pretty sure the novel went something like that.
Honestly I can see how someone might take the book Ishmael as sort of a religious ideology even.
On the cover even of the copy I own there is a review which reads:
“From now on I will divide the books I have read into two catagories — the ones I read before Ishmael and those I read after” .... Jim Brittel, Whole Earth Review”
Such a serious praise for a review.
It tells a story as if it is exaplining everything and all of history. So for the idiot left-wing mind it may become as if the bible for who we are and how we got to where we are today.
It is obvious that James Lee took this ideological rhetoric very seriously.