Frost "AGAINST THE DAY" (has this been mentioned yet?)

[David Morris]

Jhn 12:7 <http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Jhn&c=12&t=KJV#comm/7>
Then
said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.


On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:56 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2Pe 3: <http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=2Pe&c=3&t=KJV#comm/7>6
>
> Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
>
>  But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept
> in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of
> ungodly men.
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 5:28 PM, <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Against "the" day, it sounds like, as opposed to "a" day (any given day),
>> he seems to be saying. The use of the definite article is telling. I don't
>> recall the Frost citation being mentioned, although the phrase was
>> certainly considered from that angle. Good addition.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com>
>> To: "“pynchon-l at waste.
>> org“" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Sun, Jan 13, 2013 5:48 pm
>> Subject: Frost "AGAINST THE DAY" (has this been mentioned yet?)
>>
>> From Robert Frost's "The Figure a Poem Makes":
>>
>> The impressions most useful to my purpose seem always those I was unaware
>> of and so made no note of at the time when taken, and the conclusion is come
>> to that like giants we are always hurling experience ahead of us to pave
>> the future with *against the day *when we may want to strike a line of
>> purpose across it
>> for somewhere. The line will have the more charm for not being
>> mechanically straight. We enjoy the straight crookedness of a good walking
>> stick. Modern instruments
>> of precision are being used to make things crooked as if by eye and hand
>> in the old days.
>>
>
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