Taras Bulba

[Monica]

Can you point me to where Wikipedia says this? I'm not seeing it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taras_Bulba

From wikipedia: Taras Bulba is a romanticized historical religious novel

Key word here being historical. My guess is that Taras Bulba was a real person, who happened to have a book written about him, but now the book is more famous than the person. Or, maybe there was another person with that name who has nothing to do with the book, and that person was not well-known so, even though graduating to 4D STS, was forgotten by 3D historians.

As an example: Let's say a very negatively polarized entity committed a string of murders but was never caught. Say, for example, Jack the Ripper. Since we don't know the identity of Jack the Ripper, he might have had a common name like John Smith, or he might have had an unusual name, but his name would not get a reaction from us because it never got associated with his atrocities.

So maybe Taras Bulba was the name of some book totally unrelated to another person by the same name, who was an unknown figure who did heinous things to the point of graduating, but just didn't go down in history as anyone special.

Not having read the book, I don't know whether there was actually a historical character portrayed in the book. If so, I'd say it's probably likely that Ra was referring to that historical figure. But these are just some possibilities. Point here being that not all entities sufficiently polarized for graduation are necessarily famous or infamous.