From: James Jordan <jbjordan4@home.com>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Revelation-BOTLS
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 15:20:58 

It certainly seems more than a coincidence! Very interesting.

Nutria

At 03:15 PM 5/29/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>This is from -Grace Abounding-, the autobiography of John (-Pilgrim's
>Progress-) Bunyan. This happens on a Sunday: "as I was in the midst of a
>game of Cat, and having struck it one blow from the Hole, just as I was
>about to strike it the second time, a Voice did suddenly dart from
>Heaven into my Soul, which said, -Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to
>Heaven, or have thy sins and go to Hell?- At this I was put to an
>exceeding Maze. Wherefore, leaving my Cat upon the ground, I looked up
>to Heaven, and was as if I had, with the Eyes of my understanding, seen
>the Lord Jesus looking down on me, as being very hotly displeased with
>me, and as if he did severely threaten me with some grievous Punishment
>for these and other my ungodly Practices."
>
>Bunyan is famously Protestant, of course, but very famous too. Leaving
>aside the accusatory nature of his revelation, doesn't it seem more than
>coincidence that Silk, too, should be struck just in the middle of a
>game? The game is called "tip-cat" according to the OED and is played
>thus: A small piece of wood tapering at each end, used in the game of
>tip-cat, etc.; it is hit at one end by the cat-stick, and made to spring
>from the ground, and then driven away by a side stroke. Bunyan is among
>the citations.
>
>-alga
>
>
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