In the hospital mess hall, often played off as a hang out space in the intervals between meals, everything was either white or baish and a small congregation of inmates were forming around a small, square table next to a 73'' plasma TV playing Judge Judy reruns. Jesse, a thirty-one year old skinny man with a curvy red mustache and a bustling laugh, pulls out the scrabble board from the shelf below the TV. Upon removing the box top, Corrine, clad lazily in hospital garb, points out a small scribble in the bottom-right corner of the cardboard lid. It said this: PROVERBS:10:15:50. We stalled our scrabble game, that upon reflection had not even started yet, to storm the computers and figure out what text the scribble was alluding to. Corrine found that it could mean either 2 things, depending on what Proverbs you were reading:
"The rich man's wealth is his strong city; the destruction of the poor is their poverty"
or
"Hell and Destruction are before the Lord; so how much more the hearts of the sons of men"
I found that beautiful and mysterious; or maybe just beautiful because it was mysterious. This allusion cannot be explained but over the last month I have been ambushed with a coffin full of allusions in which i wish to dive into as a part of Learning blogs. They are all in the same vain as the Chaos Theory so I assume this is okay. This is what I have been learning.
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