JW:
Chiasm from the legendary Vorkosigan:
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14:1-10
Verse | Theme | Commentary |
A It was now two days before the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth, and kill him; | Betrayal | |
| Looking forward | |
| Anointing | The first name moniker, "the leper". And what is the purpose of monikers. To memorialize. |
| Rebuke | - |
| Rebuke | - |
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Anointing | - |
| Looking forward | I'll never forget good ol what'sherface. The missing name Marker where there really should be one. |
A Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them. | Betrayal | The second name moniker. The takeaway above, as always, is whatever follows "and truly I say to you". Here, memorializing. Our Master Gospeller has, whoever the hell he was, has outdone himself here as within the chiasm with the inner diamond of memorializing, we have the memorializing of the main failure character names in GMark, Simon & Judas, contrasted by what they sandwich, "the woman". This was a Master craftsman who constructed with a very deliberate templeplate and knew that a Gospel with a theme of revelation had to be anonymous (the real Messianic Secret). |
Joseph
WOMAN, n.
An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a
rudimentary susceptibility to domestication. It is credited by
many of the elder zoologists with a certain vestigial docility
acquired in a former state of seclusion, but naturalists of the
postsusananthony period, having no knowledge of the seclusion,
deny the virtue and declare that such as creation's dawn beheld,
it roareth now. The species is the most widely distributed of all
beasts of prey, infesting all habitable parts of the globe, from
Greenland's spicy mountains to India's moral strand. The popular
name (wolfman) is incorrect, for the creature is of the cat kind.
The woman is lithe and graceful in its movement, especially the
American variety (felis pugnans), is omnivorous and can be
taught not to talk.
The New Porphyry