[lit-ideas] Re: Fw: Re: Lighting Fools: Reflections on an Image in Macbet...
- From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 08:53:16 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
Changing genres, it's like the story about the guy who doesn't like the lit=
tle hut he lives in. He goes to the town elder and says, father, I hate it=
. It's so small. It makes me so depressed. So the town elder says, okay,=
go get your mother and bring her to your hut. The guy says, are you kiddi=
ng? It's so small now. And the elder says, trust me, just do it. So the =
guy does it and next week comes back and says, father, what'd you do to me?=
She nags, she complains, it's worse than ever. So the elder says, go get=
your brother and his family and bring them in. He does, and he goes back =
to the elder and it's the same thing, only this time the elder says, go get=
a goat and some chickens and bring them in. The guy is desperate by now b=
ut does it anyway, and the following week he goes back and says, geez, I wa=
s depressed and now I'm suicidal. So the elder says, okay, kick them all o=
ut. The guy goes back and kicks them all out and comes back to the elder a=
nd says, father, you're a genius. I kicked them all out and now the place =
is so big. I'm so happy.
Moral: Since things can always be worse, Jose loves you.
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From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
Sent: Feb 4, 2005 8:31 AM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Fw: Re: Lighting Fools: Reflections on an Image in=
Macbet...
"She was always good company -- a little heavy with the lipstick maybe, a =
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little less than choosy about men and booze, a little loud, but great at a =
party=20
and always good for a laugh. Then the prophet Hosea came along wearing a =
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sandwich board that read 'The End Is at Hand' on one side and 'Watch Out' o=
n=20
the other. The first time he asked her to marry him, she thought he was =
=20
kidding. The second time she knew he was serious but thought he was crazy=
. The=20
third time she said yes. He wasn't exactly a swinger, but he had a kind f=
ace,=20
and he was generous, and he wasn't all that crazier than everybody else. =
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Besides, any fool could see he loved her. Give or take a little, she even=
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loved him back for a while and they had three children whom Hosea named wi=
th=20
queer names like =20
Not-pitied-for-God-will-no-longer-pity-Israel-now-that-it's-gone-to-the-dog=
s so that every time the roll was called at school, Hosea would be=20
scoring a prophetic bullseye in absentia. But everybody could see the=20
marriage wasn't going to last, and it didn't. While Hosea was off hitting=
the =20
sawdust trail, Gomer took to hitting as many night spots as she could squee=
ze =20
into a night, and any resemblance between her next batch of children and Ho=
sea =20
was purely coincidental. It almost killed him, of course. Every time he=
=20
raised a hand to her, he burst into tears. Every time she raised one to h=
im,=20
he was the one who ended up apologizing. He tried locking her out of the=
=20
house a few times when she wasn't in by five in the morning, but he always =
opened=20
the door when she finally showed up and helped get her to bed if she =20
couldn't see straight enough to get there herself. Then one day she didn't=
show up=20
at all. He swore that this time he was through with her for keeps, but of=
=20
course he wasn't. When he finally found her, she was lying passed out in =
a=20
highly specialized establishment located above an adult bookstore, and he =
had to=20
pay the management plenty to let her out of her contract. She'd lost her=
=20
front teeth and picked up some scars you had to see to believe, but Hosea =
had=20
her back again and that seemed to be all that mattered. He changed his=20
sandwich board to read 'God Is Love' on one side and 'There's No End to It=
' on the=20
other, and when he stood on the street corner belting out
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How can I give you up, O Ephraim!
How can I hand you over, O Israel!
For I am God and not man,
The Holy One in your midst
(Hosea 11:8-9)
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nobody can say how many converts he made, but one thing that's for sure is =
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that, including Gomer's there was seldom a dry eye in the house.
(Hosea 1-3, 11)"
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"Peculiar Treasures", Frederick Buechner
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Julie Krueger
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Macbet...
The God of the Old Testament needs to be understood with some semblance of=
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Hosea.
A.A. Amen. I'm all ears. Fire away.
Andy Amago
Julie Krueger
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Macbeth's "Tomorrow" Soliloquy
On His Blindness
When I consider how my light is spent =20
E're half my days, in this dark world and wide, =20
And that one Talent which is death to hide, =20
Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bent =20
To serve therewith my Maker, and present =20
My true account, least he returning chide, =20
Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd, =20
I fondly ask; But patience to prevent =20
That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need =20
Either man's work or his own gifts, who best =20
Bear his milde yoak, they serve him best, his State =20
Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed =20
And post o're Land and Ocean without rest: =20
They also serve who only stand and waite. =20
A.A. His God is loving, accepting God who demands little. Certainly not=
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the God of the Old Testament. =20
Andy Amago
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Robert Paul
The Reed Institute
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