A Little More Whiteness, Please
David Morris
fqmorris at hotmail.com
Sun Oct 24 18:05:28 CDT 1999
>From: Paul Mackin
>
> > Terrance F. Flaherty wrote:
> >
> > > The whiteness is what I am interested in.
snip]
[> > Behold I was brought forth in iniquity
> > And in sin my mother conceived me
> > Behold thou dost desire truth in the innermost being
> > And in the hidden part thou wilt make me know wisdom
> > Purify me with hyssop and I shall be clean
> > Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow
> > --Psalm 51
>
>
>Conceived in sin and born in corruption as the Huey Long character in
>All the King's Men liked to say.
>
>Whiteness has also of course its opposite (derived) biblical
>connotation--camouflage for corruption and death and by extension Sin, as
>in whited sepulcher.
White Vs. Black
White Vs. Green
Or
Green (living)
then
White (the consumed)
then
Black (the excreted)
then
Green (growing up from the shit...)
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