Re: The Inscribed Pillar in "The Purple Cloud"
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Platypus (IP Logged)
Date: 12 April, 2018 08:04PM
I tried to look for an analogy to the "seven heads" of the Beast, but here, if one is intended, the author has gone out of his way to be less-than obvious. Instead, we learn that Adam sees "eight or nine" smoking volcanic peaks on the former site of the undersea eruption. But Adam then goes on to say that he "did not count" them, and it might have been as few as seven, or as many as ten. (Sneaky!) We know from Tissu's account that the 10 waterspout pillars were visible simultaneously with the emerging landmass, though Tissu does not count the number of volcanic peaks.