Chidi don kill me...
As the saying goes,
"Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd
Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd."
Just after I pushed the send button, I thought that I should have replaced your bulldozer on fire by oil tanker on fire but you have now entered the hall of fame among the elders of the metaphysical conceit with your awesome "Hell haven't had such inferno! " What a line!
Well, at least the fire is legal, within legal limits, dear householder.
Paul who is sometimes criticized as a "woman hater", did warn men on fire that "it's better to marry than to burn". As an amateur theologian I didn't pay him any mind, I used to think that he meant than "it's better to marry than to burn in hell" and really didn't care - as Andrew Marvell put it, it's either now ( here and now ) or never "And into ashes all my lust; "
Still on fire : Strindberg wrote to Siri von Essen :" jag har icke det skarpaste huvudet – men elden; min eld är den största i Sverige och jag skall om ni vill sätta eld på hela detta usla nästet!" which translates :"I don't have the sharpest head - but the fire; my fire is the biggest in Sweden and I will if you want, fire up this whole nasty nest! "
PS in the middle of Drottninggatan in Stockholm, one of the busiest streets down town – where there was this terrorist attack last year this one sentence from that Strindberg quotation is written to silver metal lettering in the middle of the road :"Min eld är den största i Sverige " ( My fire is the biggest in Sweden!"
On Thursday, 23 August 2018 19:31:41 UTC+2, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM wrote:
"Can well imagine the Registered Freight Forwarder's bulldozer on fire..." (Cornelius Hamelberg)
Hell haven't had such inferno!
CAO.
Listserv moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin
To post to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com
To subscribe to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue+subscribe@googlegroups.com
Current archives at http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue
Early archives at http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index.html
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "USA Africa Dialogue Series" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to usaafricadialogue+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
No comments:
Post a Comment