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Originally Posted by NeitherFirstnorLast
Review of either book anyone?
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They were both fairly unscholarly works. I think in one of them they kept misspelling "biblical." I'm not sure which one.
But both of them got some things right and other things wrong. On the other hand, thinking back there were some things they said that I dismissed that now sort of made sense.
One example, and I know this is vague, because I can't even remember which book it was from. But I remember an account of the writer visiting an LC meeting and listening to the popcorn testimonies and other declarations and being troubled by the unusual tone and cadence of them.
What was it?, he asked. Finally it came to him. Everyone sounded Chinese, even though they were largely white Americans!
I remember at the time I thought the guy was crazy. But now I think there was something to it. I think we had picked up the way the Chinese saints would speak very rapidly and then end on a very high, extended note. "Di-di-di-di-di-di-deeeeeeeeeee!" Everyone did it. Though I don't know what they sound like now.