Once upon a time, there was a king who gave a feast. Though the invitations were sent,
the honored invitees declined. They preferred their brides, their fields, their sundry other obligations. And so the servants were sent out into all the highways and biways to compel all whom they could to enter.
At the feast, however, there were two problems. First, an unexpected and honored guest arrived. This compelled all who were seated unduly to shift their seats down. Their glory reach had exceeded its grasp.
Then, indeed, there was the problem of one-too-many guests. And so the master called forth the lowliest and said to him, “You are not properly adorned for the feast. Go out, where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
And when the teacher gathered with his disciples, they asked what might be the meaning of the parable. And he answered, saying, The meaning of the parable is this:
There were once those who were invited to the Top 50 Biblioblogs for August. And yet, there was a grave oversight of the Storied blog that should have appeared at position 29.
When the honored guest arrived, there was a needful shuffling of those beneath him. And #50 was thrown out into the cold, reinforcing said lowly blogger’s sentiment that there is never one objective meaning in the text, least of all a top 50 blog list.
I made a similar observations last month, only to discover that if you want to be considered for inclusion on the list, you just need to let Jeremy know. Leave a comment on the post and he’ll get you in the list next month.
I exchanged emails with him, but decided that a faux parable was more fun than leaving it to offline conversation!
Definitely!
And as you can tell by Marc’s ranking if you pay Jeremy a few bucks a month you end up in the Top 10!
Nice. I wonder if Jeremy has a paypal account?
as the saying goes, ya gotta be innit to winnit,
but if you go in at 29 then that would knock my debut entry down to 34, which is neither the atomic number of arsenic nor the number of vertebrae in the human spine, so not as cool as 33.
I generally don’t pay Jeremy directly for inclusion in the top 2, but I do buy a lot of books via his online bookstore. Sure, some might say that this is a type of funneling or money laundry, but no one gets hurt, right?
You white-collar-crime types. You never see the pain & destruction you cause…