Bookly Random
Tagged by GirlZoot
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open the book to page 123
- Find the fifth sentence
- Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions
Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest, then tag three people.
Consider yourself tagged.
My problem is that I never put anything away, I just put it down when I’m done. It seems to be a genetic thing in my family, we spent three days cleaning out Grandma’s house and a similar amount of time in Great Aunt Margaret’s. When I go, i imagine it will take weeks to clean out the accumulation of stuff I have. In any event the closest book I have happens to be the last that I read.
Harpur, Tom. 2005. The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light. Walker & Company. ISBN 0676975739.
Samson in Hebrew means “solar”, and he is plainly a sun-god figure (as the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church suggests and Kuhn affirms). Delilah, whose wiles eventually stripped him of his prodigious strength, is linked by Massey with the feeble, waning aspect of lunar light - the dark of the moon - a sign of the sun’s weakening each month. In the saga, she shears off Samson’s hair, symbolizing the sun’s loss of its halo of powerful rays.
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Wow, that book is deeply meditative stuff.
I can relate to clean-up you mentioned. I moved house a couple of months ago, and it took me a whole month of nights sorting out 9 years’ worth of paper!
Interesting, interesting. I just finished an ancient mythology unit last semester and it’s just an inexhaustably interesting topic. Did you enjoy the book?
Watson - I dread my next move… There are boxes of things I haven’t seen in decades in the basement.
Bean - loved the book (My Review)