I'm reading an article on Joyce called "The Ghosts of Ulysses" and found this.
"For God impregnates Mary with a word, a breath, a thought, and he does not even have to move an inch. The Holy Ghost takes care of everything. This spirit, Jones thinks, derives from infantile fantasies about the fecundating power of another kind of breath or spiritus: that is, the gaseous exhalations of the anus. In other words, behind the myth of virgin birth lurks the belief that Mary was inseminated by a cosmic fart (113)."
That's got to be the dumbest argument I've ever read. It makes no sense even in its context.
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