NPPR Line 143 a clockwork toy

[Michael Joseph]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Glenn  Scheper wrote:

> Please, How is a candle(stick) related to broken time symbolism?
>
thanks for illuminating help on candlestick. Also trad symbol of one's
life in time (burning one's candle at both ends = hastening the end of
one's life); life like a flame on a candle (nursery rhyme, for example,
"here comes a candle to light you to bed/Here comes a chopper to chop off
your head;"  perhaps Jack jumping over the candlestick is another image of
the atemporal, the flame jumping off the wick, as, for example, at the end
of Katzenzakis's ODYSSEY: A MODERN SEQUEL; and famous line from Othello
"put out the light and then put out the light" or, alternately, "put out
the light and then put out her light"); yahrzeit candles, and other
memorial candles, symbolize time beyond time or atemporal time, in illo
tempore.


Michael



> >      Shade and Kinbote's sojourn constitutes an escape from time:
> > the candle, handless clock, broken clockwork toy, are all broken
> > symbols of time, or symbols of broken or stopped time.
>
> C. line 143 says candle-stick, a hyphen at line end in my copy.
>
> Solving candlestick is half the key of a mystery in Revelation:
>
> 1:19 Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which
>      are, and the things which shall be hereafter;
>
> 1:20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right
>      hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are
>      the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks
>      which thou sawest are the seven churches.
>
> Is a candlestick the candle itself or the candle's receptacle?
> Websters: Candlestick: a cupped or spiked holder for a candle.
>
> Funny, I opened my oldest reference, Harper's Bible Dictionary,
> wherein the entry Candlestick said, See Lampstand. These past
> 20 years I've been trying to see the symbolic importance of a
> thing that supports an oil lamp, which in my mental image had
> deteriorated by now to approximately a bedside night-stand.
>
> But now I find the Candlestick of Rev. is Greek LYCHNOS, which
> I can now properly map to Lamp, which discussion indicates no
> candle at all, but for that age, a vessel with oil and a wick.
>
> Which might VN mean by candlestick?
>
> From my AF perspective, Aladdin's lamp is Aladdin himself.
> The djinn comes out of a bottle which is himself. Rather,
> he is intertwined with the bottle, like the vase my wife
> bought, that has a serpent passing through cracks in it.
> Depending what end's what, putting a lamp under a bushel
> resembles coitus, but the lamp on a lampstand his mouth.
>
> Yours truly,
> Glenn Scheper
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