1. Sean Redlitz, an overseas VFI research scholar, filed this research report on 27 May 1996.

Some thoughts on The Falls and the Bible
Clearly, it goes without saying that the V.U.E. is a disaster of biblical proportions. The V.U.E. itself has many precedents in the Bible and is not entirely out of character with the disasters depicted therein. The following is a collection of Falls-Bible associations I have made. I hope my associates at the VFI will be able to add to them and develop them further:

1. The Falls and The Fall.
   The Genesis tale is man's first great Fall, from innocence, from grace, from God's kingdom. Is this also the point at which man was made mortal? I cannot recall. If so, maybe the VUE is God's way of saying we've been exiled long enough, that we're now immortal and can return the the Garden of Eden (ie. The Boulder Orchard?).
   
2. Babel.
   I doubt that I'm not the first to remark upone how the VUE incorporates elements of the Tower of Babel section of the Bible. In that story, men decide to build a tower to the heavens - envious of God, or the birds, or both? God strikes these men with an Unknown Event which causes a proliferation of tongues, not unlike those caused by the V.U.E., the purpose of which is to fragment society further. This fragmentation is echoed through The Falls with one prominent example being the fate of the Fallari brothers.
   
3. The Flood.
   The Falls is filled with references to water: Ashile Fallko dying in his bath, Raskado Fallcastle making love to Gandy Ova (Goose Egg) in the shower, Bewick Fallcaster's real surname 'Niagara', Cissie Colpitts and the water tower, Sashio Fallapsy's body washing up after being attacked by cormorants, Aptesia Fallarme's amazing ability to generate large quantities of the stuff and no doubt many others, including all of those categorized as Dreamers of Water. All of this seems to harken back to Noah and the Ark, giving water in The Falls a level of malevolence close to that of birds themselves. And we mustn't forget that Noah's first act, when running aground, was to release birds to seek dry land - the first of which (a raven? a crow?) never returned. God promised Noah that he would never strike down man with a great flood again. Certainly the V.U.E. is, if nothing else, a tribute to God's fertile imagination for disaster.