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One of my reviewers hit me with a review like this.

Who's Norm?

Up first, Bethlehem! Currently in Palestinian territory. Fortunately, since the Church is behind this mission, they're using their diplomatic contacts to bypass normal travel restrictions and delays. I plan a "convoy" of two SUVs, one filled with Connor, Father Romero, their Catholic guide, and a Swiss Guard as driver. SUV number two is more Swiss Guards. The Swiss Guards are expendable. Normally, the elite Swiss Guards only protect the Pope and his residence, but given who Connor may be, they're not taking any chances.

Just finished the longest book about Jesus short of the Bible: Jesus: A Pilgrimage. Highly recommend it if you have the time to read the whole thing. I had to fast-track my way through it or spend another month reading. It didn't have as much location information as I would have hoped for, but it fills in a few blanks that were left open by my other books. Fortunately, the last 20% was footnotes and bibliography. I'm now done my formal research! Next comes integrating two books worth of Kindle notes into my Word notes/tables. That's going to take much longer than I would have hoped. Two months, give or take.

You didn't spoil anything for me, Rachel. I don't have HBO, so the details will be long forgotten before I ever see it. HBO is only available through an expensive cable package in Canada. I don't watch TV, just the occasional Netflix show or movie. I spend most of my free time trying to finish the research for the trilogy. My latest research book has some useful elements, but it's incredibly long. I've been reading for two weeks off and on and am only 60% done. I've begun skipping passages looking for modern descriptions of New Testament sites in the Holy Land, which is why I bought it in the first place. For example, I learned tonight that the short route from Old Jerusalem to Bethany (where Lazarus was raised) is blocked by a wall built to separate Israelis from Palestinians, requiring a major detour. There's no mention of the wall in Google Maps. It looks like a short hop. Bethany and Bethlehem are in Palestinian-controlled territory, although they remain open for tourists. And the site where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist is in Jordan. The Jordan River no longer runs by there, so someone built a modern baptism site on the Israeli side of the Jordan. For a few shekels, they'll rent you a bath robe and duck your head underwater. :-)

It's actually an "imprint" that Jesus left in the places he visited during his ministry. Connor can see them and (possibly) experience what Jesus did 2000 years ago. I haven't decided yet if Connor can hear Jesus from back then (e.g. The Sermon on the Mount). It becomes somewhat unwieldy when you think about Nazareth since he grew up there and his aura should be all over that place at different ages. Still thinking about how this will work.

Jeanne, if you look at the upper right of your home page, there's an area dedicated to the contest. Click on 'learn more' to go to the contest page. There you can click on 'Entries' to see everything that's been entered so far.

My main character, Connor, reports seeing the "aura" of Christ as they travel to places He visited in the Holy Land. After looking up the word, I'm not sure it's the correct term. What Connor sees is the residual energy of Christ's passing. Is that His aura or is there a better term? I suppose I could go with residual energy, although that's a long term.

Thanks
Dirk

The first one looks like you falling asleep (or being pious) and the second one looks like you after too much coffee. It also looks like me with my Harry Potter glasses on (gold frame/black was too geeky). I look like a country doctor with old-fashioned spectacles. My mother can't stop laughing when she sees them. I guess that was the reason there was only pair of those frames among the entire store selection.

Nuts. I just changed Lo Bidda to Low Bidder in my Strongest Start entry. Back to the edit screen.

Is Lo Bidda Corporation an obvious variant of Low Bidder Corporation, or should I make it more obvious for the spoof-impaired?