Does Norman Gottwald, author of The Tribes of Yahweh, really live in Napier, New Zealand? Is he really the owner of all the port equipment in Napier, moonlighting as a Marxist biblical scholar?
18 January, 2011
Norm Gottwald in New Zealand?
Posted by stalinsmoustache under biblical studies, ships | Tags: Napier, New Zealand, Norman Gottwald, Tribes of Yahweh |[4] Comments
18 January, 2011 at 3:51 pm
not as far as I know… my dad was CE of that port for 30 years, designed the wharf, ‘starry skies design’ they call it … I used to swim off the port there, and across the bay to Perfume Point (so called because the sewerage is let out there – or at least a few miles further out to sea)… Napier … sigh … home …. sigh … I grew up there … keep going back there, lived in a million different cottages and shacks around there … sigh… the sea…
No – the owner of that is Norman’s brother. He lives in Germany and is a rich capitalist wanker.
18 January, 2011 at 5:59 pm
So you’re not part of the Gottwald clan?
18 January, 2011 at 6:54 pm
well…. there is a strong family tradition of hugging trees, you know, worshipping them, what with them being so godlike and all… we call it the hugging the godtree homily…
19 January, 2011 at 7:47 am
actually naa – I’m an orphan, a child of Pania (of the reef) and I come from the ocean.