From ad8c6cd07aeef5780298b0f38dd670636184fe5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madison Scott-Clary Date: Fri, 12 May 2023 11:15:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update from sparkleup --- writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/background.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/background.md b/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/background.md index d936d360..8ba3b857 100644 --- a/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/background.md +++ b/writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/reverse/background.md @@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ We bonded over being young --- we were both young, once, and dumb --- and the fa I say "first time", as we eventually drifted apart in the young-love fashion: we got frustrated with the fact that we were growing into different people than then ones we'd fallen in love with. +We fell into love, fell out, and then, years later, as he moved to Colorado, some strange triangle --- or perhaps quadrilateral --- formed between us. + +He moved to Denver while I was up in Fort Collins, working on my bachelor's at CSU, and I spent the occasional weekend with him, whether that was him driving up to our place or me heading down to visit him and Kinematics. I thought he was dating Kine, he thought I was dating my now husband, JD, and JD thought I was dating him. + +It wasn't until he moved out of state --- this time off to Carlsbad, CA to get a degree in gemology --- that we actually sat down to have that conversation. I hadn't started dating JD yet. He and Kine had never dated. The us who we had become fell back into love, found some new way to exist together without driving each other nuts. Not yet, at least. + [^background-remember]: 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 fire pit, 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, interpositions, and interpolations that go into the book of Job. Take, for instance, Job's first speech. "For many reasons," he writes, "the passage 4:12-21 should be read here, right after chapter 3, as the conclusion of Job's first speech." \parencite[16]{greenstein} In that speech, Job bemoans the horrors that have befallen him and his family, spelling out in poetic detail all of the ways he wishes he'd never been born.Where, in the traditional ordering, this would lead to Eliphaz's first speech, Greenstein instead places a description of a vision that had, in those orderings, been given to Eliphaz. He provides three reasons: in similar tales, it is the complainant who receives a vision; Job, rather than his friends, receives the theophany in this story; and both Job and Eliphaz himself refer to Job's vision in later chapters.