I have been thinking about what this could mean, but still am not closer to the answer. His last words aren’t Eloi Eloi lama, but the absolutely fascinating phonetically similar English “It’s a lie, It’s a lie”.
And finally, Karl is crucified at the cross. He suffers everything the biblical Jesus did. He even forces the kind and caring Judas to betray him to the Romans, making up a plot about a potential uprising. He forms his disciples, he spreads the word of the New Testament, he speaks in parables everywhere he goes. He decides and succeeds to become the Jesus of the Gospels. This is where Karl’s need for the idea of God and Christianity steps in. Then he finally meets his messiah, Jesus. Does Joseph buy the Angel got me pregnant story? Not one bit. Mary is considered a whore, and Joseph is a bitter old man. He manages to locate Mary and Joseph, who are anything but their portrayed in the New Testament. This leads Karl to have one of his episodes and he dashes away, leaves John and spends time, a round number of days, in the desert, mostly hallucinating.įinally, he arrives in Nazareth, trying to find Jesus.
John thinks him a prophet or mage, and asks Karl to baptize him. Luckily for him, a group of Essenses, together with John the Baptist find him and take care of him. The time travel is a success, but Karl is totally out of it. He accepts and as they say, the rest is history. What if he can really meet Jesus and affirm all his ideas about the importance of religion. It’s a ridiculous proposal, and Karl knows it, but what if its true. One day Karl gets an offer by a millionaire to travel back in time. They would always clash, never reach a middle ground and its no real surprise that their relationship fizzled out. He and his ex would endlessly debate the place of religion and God in this new, modern world. But most importantly of all, he has a Messiah Complex and an intense adornment for the ideas of Carl Jung. In general, he has chronic issues with women, as well as homosexual tendencies which he fights against internally. Through the flash backs we learn of Karl’s many neuroses and a failed relationship with an aggressive, very empirical atheist who rivals Spock in analytical approach, but their emotional responses differ. The story is told as a combination of flashbacks and a linear story of Karl’s adventure in the time of Jesus. Karl has a lot of issues, which are gradually revealed to us. The man travels back in time, from the 1970 to the day of Jesus, hoping to meet him. The book follows the life of Karl Glogauer. Had high hopes going in and it did not disappoint. I been hearing a lot about this book, mostly praises and mostly by one of my favorite theologians Robert M. I’m shocked that this fantastic piece of fiction isn’t on the Vatican list of forbidden books. Behold the man is a science fiction /alternative history novel by Michael Moorcock.
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