"Le combat spirituel est aussi brutal que la bataille d'hommes; mais la vision de la justice est le plaisir de Dieu seul."
- Arthur Rimbaud
Today was spent wrestling with my writing demons (Yes, they seem to be plural, and to outnumber me ten to one).
There is a tradition by which every episode of the New Testament parallels an episode of the Old Testament. The New Testament episode of Doubting Thomas putting his hand into the wounds of the risen Christ has as its parallel the Old Testament episode of Jacob and the Angel, in which the Angel is described first as a man, then as an angel, and then as God himself. The strange thing about this story is that Jacob overcomes the Angel/God, and wrestles Him to the ground (although Jacob is afflicted with a limp ever after).
Well, I've been limping my way around the house all day, and I'm not sure if my writing demon is in fact a demon or an angel or God himself.
posted by Caveh Zahedi at
11:52 PM
