And if a gate without a wall may seema wounded thing, consider well the shameof walls without a gate, and Ishmaelconsidered that far more lamentable.[. . .]But all Rav Ishmael had ever meant:Not every letter carries strict intent --the speech of God, the speech of man, are loose;do not use exegesis as a noose;no maxim, axiom, maxiom, no lawmust stand as if it were a gateless wall.The /law/, the /wall/:more phemes of Chelmand not ephemeral.
And this is something I wrote in the early 2000s (posted here before in "A cross between two antlers, and the Liahona spindles"), before I had read anything by Mandelbaum. Call me Ishmael, I guess.
One of Jesus' one-liners, and far from his worse,Says the first shall be last, and the last shall be first.In the tongue of the Angles, it means something more:That the Law is a wall, but the Rood is a door.
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Derek Lambert of MythVision Podcast consistently pronounces the word “law” as “lawl” (lol), with a southern drawl (droll). Moreover, the original phonemes of Chelm are actually Chełm: the phoneme is written with the letter “l”, but pronounced as “w”.
Walls without gates. Heh. Elder Scrolls Online is currently running a one-off event in which players must work together against an evil cult, whom has barred off half of an island with a giant magical wall for some devious purpose. Breaking through the wall requires amplifying the power of a crystalline artifact called a Light of Meridia.
elderscrollsonline.com/en-gb/writhingwall
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