From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: Cocooned in Dylanesque or is Albert Einstein indeed God?
> Patrick: I didn't mean to say that no books are literally true. Although
> "bad boy stoning a cat" has so many analogues in other metaphysical
systems
> that it's hard not to suspect both borrowing and archetypal symbolism. I's
> guess that we're dealing here with an inversion of the sponsus-sponsa
> relationship, reflective of bad boy's fallen nature.
>
> Mark
Patrick the Man isn't a bad boy, he's a Rude Boy -- superannuated (general
Jamaican slang rather than specifically Rastafarian) zimmer-frame wielding
mental, with a razor-blade tipped into the edge of his bus pass.
Don't put the cross on him if you value your family jewels.
Significant Difference.
The Dictionary Pedant
(Anyone know the joke about The Boy Who Cried Wolf for the Fourth Time?
That was to be about the sickest ever, and is Deeply Archetypical.
A Confirmed Jungian.)
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