And behold, it is very good, for it is amusing. The mirror The myth is well-known: The Lord flooded the land, but only Noah's self-knitted socks stayed dry during the deluge! What we know about Noah, for example, that his beard was completely white, that he was a sturdy man at the age of five hundred, comes from oil paintings, images that depict what happened, and from the Testament, the Old one! But what should one make of it? For what if Noah was rather tiny? And not five hundred, but fifty? What if his beard was scruffy and dark, his nose bulbous like a turnip? What if he yelled at his wife when she didn't cover her hair? What if there was delusion in his eyes, like nowadays with the Taliban? Warning: From now on, the biblical legend comes to an end!.