Georgius the Peasant

Similies and the wisdom of those that came before

Wednesday, 8. April 2009, 16:22:54

always-wanted-to-do-that, quote of the day, studies, Obdormio

Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

- A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens.

Dexter, season 1So that I can link this post if the need ever arises

Comments

Anonymous # 8. April 2009, 17:49

tyblazitar writes:

We're in April, you heathen!

Georgius the Peasant # 8. April 2009, 17:58

Seeing as that's the month of Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love, and Christmas is the season were we celebrate the birth of he who performed the utmost act of love in Christian history, the very act whose anniversary we celebrate this upcoming Easter weekend, an act he performs by dying for everyone else's sins, and since dying for sins is a theme of the book and indeed death is the theme of this particular passage, I feel like I'm a multi-temporal, multi-cultural, multi-thematic and multi-religious roll, here.

Of course, that does probably make me a bit of a heathen...