OK, so older English sometimes gives us pause. What in the world does Holden Caulfield mean by this? Women kill me. They really do. I don’t mean I’m oversexed or anything like that—although I am quite sexy. I just like them, I mean. They’re always leaving their goddam bags out in the middle of the…
There is something terrifying about the future. We are afraid of the unknown, and what is less known that what has yet to even be? Nevertheless, the divine command comes to us precisely as the will of the future.
Paramore’s early “Hallelujah” has an interesting lyric at the start: Somehow everything’s going to fall—right in-to place The pause after “fall” and the lengthening of “right” add to the meaning of the line. It’s a little like: Somehow everything’s going to fall—[and if that’s the case then] let it in-to place The falling of world…
For me, a central point of apocalyptic theology is that the end reveals the beginning and the beginning reveals the end. On the one side, as the history of the world progresses toward its end, the real meaning of the beginning becomes apparent—even to the point of becoming obnoxiously obvious. Specifically, the more that the…