Beauty and the Beast
[ by Charles Cameron — samson draws honey from a lion, beauty draws a toccata from the great organ of laon cathedral ]
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Beauty is wrestling the beast:
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There’s a beast overcome and a treasure drawn forth from it in Judges 14.5-9:
Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him. And the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand.. and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion. And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating..
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Lidia Ksiazkiewicz is wrestling the great organ of the Cathedral of Laon, and drawing forth from it the Toccata from Léon Boëllmann‘s Suite Gothique, opus 25:
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Honey!
December 4th, 2018 at 11:05 pm
Referring to a beast and a woman, Charles, I would have thought you would have referenced Revelations….
December 5th, 2018 at 4:49 pm
Indeed. The literary critic Northrop Frye once described the book of Revelation as “a fairy tale about a damsel in distress, a hero killing dragons, a wicked witch, and a wonderful city glittering with jewels”