I have long been struck by the biblical story which recounts
Pharaoh's daughter's transgression of her father's murderous law to
kill all male Hebrew babies by saving a Hebrew baby boy whom she
named ?Moses.? When that adopted child became an adult, he murdered
an Egyptian, fled the country, and later received the law of Israel
on Sinai, one item in which prohibits murder. This novel, ?The
Peculiar Transgression Of Pharaoh's Daughter?, is based on that
story. Reading it, we are presented with what seems to be
developing into a splendid drama whose theme is the eternal strife
between Love and Law?a strife which often ends with an individual
transgressing Law because of the demands of Love or, contrariwise,
transgressing Love because of the demands of Law. In the Biblical
treatment of this strife, however, Law simply trumps Love and Deity
gives the Supreme Law forbidding murder to a man whose very life
was spared because of the love in a young girl's heart. Any writer
who presents an end to this strife simply by dismissing the strife
between Love and Law in favor of Law simply becomes an advocate for
Law. In the real world, the best we can hope for is to moderate
this eternal strife through provisional treaties my characters more
or less grudgingly end up initialing. The absolute victory of
either contestant dehumanizes them both.
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