Why are there celebratory banquets for the undead rather than nothing? To understand, we will need a new model of myth that will have nothing to do with the need of the critics of “ontotheology” always and ever to imagine religion as wanting to be thought of as a stable doubling structure of the world in another one. Rather, as Serres writes, these stochastic emergences “are brought back to zero by deterioration, ruin and death. But, temporarily, they form” (22). Indeed, and so did Paulinism, for a while until its expectations and desires faded and his curators therefore pretended as though he had been teaching the stabilities of a pop Platonic universe