Showing posts with label Wuora. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wuora. Show all posts
Monday, January 20, 2014
"Behold, the Child is Father to the Man"
An earlier version of the comments I make below appeared only moments ago as Comment Number 7 at this link, which you are invited to visit:
My own father used to call me, endearingly, daddy (= "Wuora") -- as though I was the very one I was named after. I never flinched at that, I don't think. It's the custom. Many fathers did, but they're a dying breed. I didn't see any paradox there. I don't do that myself, tho. For years I have thought that it was Jesus who (or some 'hid' part of the bible which) famously said something like: "Behold, the Child is Father to the Man." But it seems that Wordsworth, whom I read for the first time decades ago but have come upon too infrequently as Time has flown, was a true original with that enduring line - inspired by a rainbow.
"So that the father is also, in his own right, the child."
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