Post by Salzmank on Mar 28, 2018 21:16:12 GMT
This query has absolutely nothing to do with movies, so forgive me for putting it here: I’m just wondering if anyone here happens to know it!
In the great G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy, a wonderful passage runs thus:
Now, I recognize three of GKC’s five references here: Pandora’s box, Psyche and Eros, and the Garden of Eden.
But I’m not quite sure about the plucking of the flower or the city destroyed by forgetting a word. The former seems vaguely familiar; for the latter, I could only think of the Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah, which doesn’t fit the scenario. Does anyone know these? (I’ve tried looking them up, to no avail thus far.)
In the great G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy, a wonderful passage runs thus:
In the fairy tale an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened, and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten, and cities perish. A lamp is lit, and love flies away. A flower is plucked, and human lives are forfeited. An apple is eaten, and the hope of God is gone.
But I’m not quite sure about the plucking of the flower or the city destroyed by forgetting a word. The former seems vaguely familiar; for the latter, I could only think of the Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah, which doesn’t fit the scenario. Does anyone know these? (I’ve tried looking them up, to no avail thus far.)