Re: The Ark of the Biology

Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote or quoted:

This might be an excerpt from or a response to
_Science Fiction By Scientists_,

  It all kicked off in this out-of-the-way newsgroup called
  "de.etc.sprache.deutsch".

  Someone there got curious about a word from Switzerland,
  "Biolade" (health food store/organic food store).

  That word made me think of "Bundeslade" (the Ark of the Covenant).
  It really got my imagination going, trying to figure out what
  a "Biolade" could be, and I started thinking my text should be
  a mix of biblical and scientific language. I was also influenced
  by a certain sci-fi story from a scientist I'd recently read.

  So first, I put together a post in German for "de.rec.sf.misc",
  and later followed up with an English one here. The biblical
  vibe in the German version is based on Martin Luther, and in
  the English one, it's based on the KJV.