phoebe and ... melchizedek?
I saw some post on social media about Tom Bombadil, that weird character from Lord of the Rings , and the way it was phrased it reminded me of Melchizedek, that weird character from the book of Genesis. And *that* got me to thinking about Phoebe Buffay, that weird character from Friends . Hear me out. Could Phoebe be the Melchizedek of Friends ? Betteridge says a firm No, but that might not be the end of it. After all, think about both of them as out-of-the-system characters. Mel simply drops into Abram’s story in Genesis 14, along with a bunch of other figures, but he stands out. He holds real authority, and is somehow both priest and king. Phoebe comes into her friends' lives with a questionable backstory, but is fully accepted even though she’s not really 'from' their more-conventional lives. He seems to be recognized by Abram, at least enough for Abram to ...
