The West End playwright Terence Rattigan saw its three characters as the holy trinity made flesh, while the critic Kenneth Tynan thought they corresponded to the ego, superego and id.
Kobe does for steak what o-toro does for tuna, showcasing a holy communion of flesh and fat, inseparable from each other and impossibly silky on the tongue.
He is the American expression of what the Russians call a holy fool, a fleshing out of William Carlos Williams's declamation, "The pure products of America go crazy".
He himself, by the age of nineteen, had, he says, been through all three of them, and had also spent three years in the desert, mortifying his flesh, with a holy hermit named Bannus, who clothed himself only with what grew on trees, ate only such food as grew wild, and disciplined himself to chastity by constant cold-water baths.
She kept calling Jesus the Holy Victim and the Word Made Flesh and the Unspotted Sacrifice.
I saw that all of the subject lines seemed to express great concern, and a sliver of them were titled: "Comment on your post: "My Name is Susan and I'm an Alcoholic (Though I'd Prefer To Be a Flesh Eating Zombie)." Holy.
1 John 5 7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, (Jesus the word made flesh John 1 14) and the Holy Spirit: and these three are one.
The phrase "Book of Beasts" has a ring of fancy to it, and Gibson does include the fantastical, like Hesiod on "fierce Echidna," half nymph and half snake, "eating raw flesh beneath the secret parts of the holy earth".
In the end a synod held at Constantinople in 1157 adopted a compromise formula, that the Word made flesh offered a double sacrifice to the Holy Trinity, despite the dissidence of Patriarch of Antioch-elect Soterichus Panteugenus.
"For the flesh sets its desire against God's Holy Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please".
