Re: Can anyone define "Gaffa"

[chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (Chris Williams)]

>Also some images from the Gospel:  "there's a plank in me eye with a 
>camel that's trying to get through it".  It's not as rich in catholic or 
>biblical allusions as "Why Should I Love You?" though.

   She combines two different Bible quotes into one lyrical turn...

(Paraphrased from a memory that can only recall Kate accuratly)

  "...why dost thou notice the mote in thine brother's eye, and not the 
plank in thine own?"

  and

  "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for 
a rick man to enter the kindom of heaven."

   This punning usage, the constant alliteration, the internal rhymes,
split rhymes, assonance...cannot be logically reduced down to a simple
joke.


                          Chris Williams of
                             Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago
                               chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (his)
                                 vickie@njin.rutgers.edu      (hers)