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Re: Poem for the day (Reply to Steg B. and Muke T.)

From:Muke Tever <mktvr@...>
Date:Monday, September 16, 2002, 11:53
From: "Roger Mills" <romilly@...>
> Muke Tever wrote: > > >This may just be the insidious homonymy of "sun" with "son" (of God) that > figures in so many pieces whose authors forget that puns do not a dogma > make. > > I assure you, no pun intended.
I didn't mean it for _this_ poem. I've just noticed solar imagery seems to be more common in English than (say) what I remember from Spanish church. What irks me most is when [sVn] = [sVn] seems to be absolutely taken for granted, without even conscious use of metaphor. [I have not been entirely fond of most of my religion teachers...] :p *Muke! -- http://www.frath.net/