From aa89f25f48d05467a8784cc4a632148f6bb2dc1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madison Scott-Clary Date: Sat, 28 May 2022 23:05:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update from sparkleup --- writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/2-friends.tex | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/2-friends.tex b/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/2-friends.tex index cb932d49..3a0563e5 100644 --- a/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/2-friends.tex +++ b/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/2-friends.tex @@ -1 +1,7 @@ \section*{Friends and ``Friends''} + +How do we remember the past? How do we remember all of those countless conversations that make up our friendships, our relationships, our enmities? How do we remember the past? + +The Book of Job remembers it through just the discourses. It remembers entire conversations, entire histories of friendship, through the lens of those two weeks Job spent in the cold firepit, covered with ashes and sores. It remembers them all through discourses and speeches and prayers. Perhaps strangest of all, though, it remembers them disjoint and out of order. + +Edward L. Greenstein discusses the transpositions and interpolations that go into the book of Job. Take, for instance, Job's first speech. ((end with vision such that Eliphaz can reference it, despite no one else mentioning that.))