There is a dramatic word in Colossians that Christ «disarmed the rulers and authorities and made a public example of them, triumphing
over them in it [the cross]» (Col. 2:15).15 The astounding paradox, or we might even call it, reverently, God's
practical joke, is that it is precisely in offering himself as Victim that Christ becomes Victor.
Two of the most memorable include a letter to Robert Smithson, casually addressed «Hey Bob,» and a shattered glass Coca - Cola bottle, allegedly left
over from a
practical joke once played on Robert Irwin.