Re: Rép. : Re: [Milton-L] Samson as suicidebomber

[James Rovira]

Could you develop your disagreement, James?  You say this,

<<In point of fact, it is clear throughout SA that the hero's strength
has returned with his hair.>>

I agree with you on that point, and when you say at the end that SA
"does not work that way" I understood you to mean the hair is not
"just" a symbol, which again seems to support my line of reasoning.
It's not "just" a symbol if it is a visible sign of Samson's
conformity to his vow.  I would add that the vow consists entirely and
only of visible signs, comprised of not touching anything dead, not
drinking wine, and not cutting one's hair.

Jim R

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:03 PM, JD Fleming <jfleming at sfu.ca> wrote:

> On the issue of the hair, though, my point is that _SA_ doesn't seem to work along the (conventional, intelligible) lines that you suggest. Quite the contrary -- though the idea of "magical" qualities, perhaps, is not apposite. JDF