Sunday, May 29, 2011
A Perfect Day For Bananafish
Verse Number 71 --LXXI
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
How interesting! In J.D. Salinger's short story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in his fanciful musings with a child it is stated that the bananafish has consumed 78 bananas and is so bloated that it is trapped and will die. The Psalms says 3 score year and 10 (70) are the years allotted to a man, perhaps four score and what is beyond that is toil and travail. Job is said to have died "old and full of days."
"Well, they swim into a hole where there's a lot of bananas. They're very
ordinary-looking fish when they swim in. But once they get in, they behave like pigs. Why, I've known some bananafish to swim into a banana hole and eat as many as seventy-eight bananas." He edged the float and its passenger a foot closer to the horizon. "Naturally, after that they're so fat they can't get out of the hole again. Can't fit through the door."
NOTICE the imagery of a narrow passage through which few can fit. http://bible.cc/matthew/7-14.htm Because strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. COMPARE with the camel who cannot pass through the eye of the needle and Balaam and his donkey who try to pass a narrow way but an angel with a sword blocks their path (which is the only other passage in the Bible that speaks of a narrow way.)
