Showing posts with label The Bible. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Bible. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Biblical mondegreen / David - in context

SAUL: Young man, whose son art thou?
DAVID: The son of Jesse, thy faithful servant, and a Bedlamite.

Wednesday, 9 December 2015

The Goncourts* - in context

When God the Father with his long white beard, looking the way members of the Institut paint him in church cupolas, after questioning me about what I have done, questions me about everything to which I have lent the complicity of my eyes, he will doubtless ask me: "Creature whom I made human and good, have you by any chance seen the bullfight at the Barrière du Combat, with five great famished bulldogs tearing to pieces some poor, thin old donkey incapable of defending itself?" To which I will reply: "Alas, no, Lord, I have seen something worse than that: I have seen Transporter 3."

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* from the translation by Robert Baldick

Friday, 5 June 2015

Isaiah - in context

For all flesh is as grass, and all tin-openers go blunt sooner rather than later and start turning the tins into complicated shapes while digging grooves into the soft parts of your hands.

Thursday, 25 December 2014

Festive mondegreen

And his name shall be Khaled. (Wonderful!)
- Isaiah, 9:6