emjej@uokvax.UUCP (05/17/84)
#R:decwrl:-775700:uokvax:8300059:000:439 uokvax!emjej May 16 19:07:00 1984 I certainly agree with the sentiment, but in part out of fear that that will wind up in somebody's signature, let me instead propose a line I found in Bronowski's *The Ascent of Man*, whether spoken to or by Oliver Cromwell I sadly have forgotten: I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you might be mistaken. (I myself might have gotten the quote wrong; corrections are invited. Bowels? ugh.) James Jones
gtaylor@cornell.UUCP (Greg Taylor) (05/19/84)
You are NOT incorrect in the use of theword "bowels" in your quotation of Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell is quoting the apostle Paul (ah, the pleasures of intertextuality...) In the Hellenic and Judaic world of the time Paul wrote, the bowels (Splaknidzois (sp?) in Greek) were considered to be the seat of the emotions. We still use words like "visceral" or "gutsy" for use in describing deeply rooted feelings or responses. your netwatching pal, gtaylor