The DeMille Code
The DeMille Code is the new blockbuster novel of the season. A crew of crack philologists from the Institute for Institutional Prose race to decipher the long-concealed truth about the Ten Commandments, clues to which can be found in deleted scenes of De Mille's epic film, now available on DVD. Their progress is impeded and their lives threatened by the Vatican, the state Department of Administration, and other bureaucracies, which have a stake in concealing the shattering truth. Forget the story of the Golden Calf and other anti-Aaronite propaganda. What Moses first brought down the mountain was a Power Point presentation, which he showed to the people of Israel. And each commandment was an incomplete sentence with a bullet, and some came with clip art. Moses showed these to the people, and even so he read them aloud; to the people of Israel he read aloud that which they had already heard. And the people cried out to the Lord, and the Lord heard them, and a bolt of lightning detroyed the projector, forcing Moses to go back up the mountain and work with less advanced technology.

The moral of the story, of course, is that God hates Power Point presentations, too.

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